﻿Birds 
  of 
  Hainan. 
  _ 
  425 
  

  

  and 
  but 
  for 
  Swinhoe^'s 
  researches 
  (see 
  Ibis, 
  1870^ 
  pp. 
  77, 
  230, 
  

   342) 
  next 
  to 
  nothing 
  would 
  be 
  known 
  of 
  its 
  fauna. 
  When 
  

   Consul 
  at 
  Kiungchow 
  Swinhoe 
  worked 
  with 
  his 
  well-known 
  

   activity, 
  and 
  through 
  his 
  native 
  collectors 
  obtained 
  examples 
  

   of 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  inhabiting 
  the 
  island, 
  among 
  

   which 
  were 
  an 
  astonishing 
  number 
  of 
  novelties. 
  An 
  interest- 
  

   ing 
  account 
  of 
  a 
  trip 
  through 
  a 
  great 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  interior, 
  

   embracing 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  the 
  aboriginals, 
  will 
  be 
  

   found 
  in 
  a 
  book 
  published 
  in 
  1886, 
  'Ling-Nam, 
  or 
  Interior 
  

   Views 
  of 
  Southern 
  Chiua,^ 
  by 
  B. 
  C. 
  Henry. 
  

  

  Since 
  the 
  days 
  of 
  Swinhoe's 
  discoveries, 
  I 
  believe 
  I 
  am 
  

   right 
  in 
  saying 
  that 
  no 
  one 
  has 
  visited 
  the 
  island 
  with 
  a 
  view 
  

   of 
  studying 
  its 
  avifauna; 
  aud 
  the 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  B. 
  

   Schmacker 
  through 
  his 
  Japanese 
  hunter 
  Tetsu 
  are 
  therefore 
  

   of 
  great 
  interest. 
  Tetsu 
  has 
  paid 
  two 
  visits 
  to 
  the 
  island, 
  

   and 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  were 
  examined 
  and 
  reported 
  on 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  Hartlaub 
  ^ 
  . 
  These, 
  I 
  believe, 
  were 
  mainly 
  col- 
  

   lected 
  near 
  Hoihow 
  on 
  the 
  northern 
  coast. 
  The 
  second 
  

   collection, 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  two 
  trips 
  to 
  the 
  mountainous 
  regions 
  

   of 
  the 
  south-west, 
  made 
  between 
  May 
  1891 
  and 
  January 
  

   1892, 
  was 
  kindly 
  put 
  into 
  my 
  hands 
  by 
  Mr, 
  Schmacker. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  'Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithologists" 
  Club" 
  for 
  

   November 
  1892, 
  I 
  described 
  as 
  apparently 
  new 
  five 
  species, 
  

   but 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  I 
  regret 
  to 
  say 
  I 
  was 
  

   mistaken. 
  The 
  others 
  and 
  several 
  of 
  doubtful 
  identity 
  I 
  

   sent 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sharpe 
  to 
  examine, 
  and 
  his 
  report 
  on 
  

   these 
  birds 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Ornithologists' 
  Club"t 
  foi' 
  December 
  1892. 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  of 
  which 
  examples 
  were 
  

   obtained 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Schmacker's 
  collector 
  was 
  about 
  40 
  — 
  a 
  good 
  

   result, 
  considering 
  that 
  little 
  attention 
  was 
  paid 
  to 
  sea-birds 
  

   or 
  Avaterfovvl, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  real 
  object 
  of 
  his 
  visits 
  was 
  Concho- 
  

   logy. 
  This 
  raises 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  Hainan 
  species 
  to 
  159. 
  

  

  Of 
  these 
  159 
  species, 
  17 
  are, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  is 
  known, 
  

   confined 
  to 
  Hainan 
  — 
  an 
  astonishingly 
  large 
  number, 
  seeing 
  

  

  * 
  " 
  Ein 
  Beitrag 
  zur 
  Ornithologie 
  Chinas," 
  Abhandliingeu 
  cles 
  natur- 
  

   wissenschaftlichen 
  Vereius 
  zu 
  Bremen, 
  1892. 
  

   t 
  Bull. 
  B. 
  0. 
  C. 
  no. 
  iv. 
  j). 
  xix. 
  

  

  