372 Mr. P. L. Sclater on Additions to 



(Lanius schach) sometimes shows itself, with a crowd of small 

 birds crying after it ; and among the Sparrows of the road 

 you occasionally see an odd Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) 

 or two. On the trees of some of the larger inclosures I have 

 noted, when cold, Bulfinches, Hawfinches, Mountain-Finches, 

 Redpolls, and Eophona melanura, and, as I have mentioned, 

 Waxwings, sometimes also an odd party of Bottle-Tits (Me- 

 cistura glaucogularis) and Suthora webbiana. But the country 

 around, with its alluvial soil, its cultivated lands, and tall- 

 growing willows and other trees encircling villages and ceme- 

 teries, abounds in all the birds that frequent the level country 

 of this latitude of China, and affords quite a contrast to the 

 flat land about Ningpo, with its marine soil and stunted vege- 

 tation. The Chinese Rook (Corvus pastinator), which in 

 Ningpo is a winter visitant only, remains about Shan- 

 ghai; and to my delight I have just discovered a rookery a 

 few miles out of town, at the lounge at the end of the Bub- 

 bling- Well Road, the great evening drive of this place. The 

 Rooks are building on the tall Salisburia trees about the 

 temple. One tree has as many as nine nests. This is the 

 first year of the establishment. 

 Shanghai, 14th April, 1873. 



XLIII. — Additions to the List of Birds of Nicaragua. 

 By P. L. Sclater. 



In 'The Ibis* for last year (p. 311), Mr. Salvin has given us 

 a valuable article on the birds of Nicaragua, based principally 

 upon the collections of Mr. Thomas Belt, lately resident at 

 the gold-mines of Chontales. Mr. Belt has recently asked me 

 to determine for him the specimens in another small collection 

 which he has made in the same district. As this contains ex- 

 amples of several species not reprsented in the former series, 

 I have thought it desirable to record their names, in order to 

 complete our knowledge of the ornithology of this interesting 

 district as far as possible. 



These additional species are : — 



