1920.] Birds of North- East ChihU. 897 



T saw one or two at tiie foot of tlie mountains, twelve miles 

 north of the port, on the 21st of May, 1911 , and one was shot 

 at Slianhaiknan by my collector on the 26th of Aprils 1914. 

 I have a number of specimens from Chien An, so that it is 

 evidently common inland. 



121. Motacilla flava simillima Martert. 

 Budytes jlavHS O. & O. p. 302. 



122. Motacilla flava borealis L. 

 Budytes cinereicapillus D. & O. p. 303. 



The Eastern Grey-headed Wagtail {M. borealis) and the 

 Blue-headed Wagtail [M. simillima) migrate together and 

 hotli foi-ms are found in the same flocks. M. simillima is 

 by far the least common and, judging from the series shot 

 and the birds observed at sufficiently close quarters in the 

 field, less than 20 i)er cent, and probably not much more 

 than 10 per cent, of the birds composing the large flocks 

 which i)ass in spring and autumn are M. simillima. The 

 birds in spring are all in summer dress. On the return 

 passage a very fcAV still wear the bright summer ))lumage. 

 These birds pass in spring from about the middle of April to 

 about the 20th of May, and in autumn immense flocks pass 

 from the latter half of August until the last decade of 

 September. I have many examples of M. borealis from 

 Chien An, dated from 16 April to 13 May, ami two of 

 M. simillima from the same locality dated 22 and 26 April. 



123. Dendronanthus indiciis ((jIiu.). 



Limonidromus indicus D. & O. p. 305 ; La T. p. 575. 



The Forest Wagtail passes through the district in Mav. 

 A few were seen near the port or at Chinwaugtao itself 

 on 21 May, 1911, 12 and 20 May, 1913, and 20 May, 

 1916. It breeds in the mountains north of Chinwaugtao, 

 whence I have two nests, each with four eggs, brouglit to me 

 on 2 July, 1917, together with the female parent bird 

 of one of the nests. The nests, according to the native 

 collectors, were placed on horizontal branches of pear trees. 

 They are small neat cups, made of very fine grass stems, 



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