446 Mr. J. 1). La Toiicho on tli,' [This, 



notes rogarJiuo; this locality were taken in gardens and 

 in the close vicinity of the town. 



The mountainous parts of Hupoli were first explored by 

 Mr. F. W. Styan, who published notes on his collections in 

 ' The Ibis ' (1899, p. 289). In 1907 and 1908, Mr. Zappey 

 collected, as mentioned above, in Hu])eh and Szechuen. 

 An account of his collections was published in the Memoirs 

 of the Museum of Comparative ZolUogy, at Harvard (Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zoology, vol. xl. no. 4, Auoust 1912). The 

 paper on the birds, by Messrs. Thay(M' and Bangs, will 

 form the basis of any future work on central Chinese 

 Ornithology, as it contains notes on 257 s})ecies and sub- 

 species, collected or observed in Ilupeh, out of the total 

 of 358 mentioned in Messrs, Thayer and Bangs' work. In 

 this paper the authors figure a Flycatcher, Silfara lychnis, 

 which had been made known from Fohkien some years 

 before as JSi. davidi. 



I am greatly indebted to Fathers Thomas Kempenaers, 

 Thaddee Jacobs, and Coluniban C/lement, and to the late 

 Faiher Anselme de Homptinne, all of the Belgian Franciscan 

 Mission of north-west Hupeh, for information regarding the 

 country, foi- [)rocuring a native hunter and assisting him to 

 collect for mc, and for a series of Ptieasants. My best thanks 

 are also due to Messrs. Chubb and Wells of the Natural 

 History Mus(Mnu and to Dr. E. Hartcrt of Tring for their 

 kind assistance in identifying specimens for me, and to Lord 

 Rothschild for kindly allowing me to work in his Museum. 



On my way back to (Uuna in i\pril 1920, I visited the 

 Museum at Harvard College and enjoyed the hospitality of 

 Mr. Outran! Bangs, who very kindly gave me two days of 

 his time. I was thus enabled to inspect most of the Chinese 

 birds collected by Zappey, as well as the fine Yunnan 

 collection acquired by that Museum in 1912. 



In the following list, the birds previously unrecorded from 

 Hupeh are marked with an asterisk. 



] . Corvus macrorhynchus. 



Thayer & Bangs, Meuj. Mus. Comp. Zool. Hai'vard 

 (JoU. vol. v. no. 4, p. 197. 



