the Birds of Chinkiang. 135 



on May 9, so that no doubt two broods are reared in the 

 season. 



10. PARUS PALUSTR1S L. 



The Marsh-Tit, which has not before been recorded from 

 the Lower Yangtse, is resident in the Chinkiang country, but 

 is not abundant there. I have seen it both in summer and 

 in winter on the plain; and on May 20, 1900, I shot an 

 example in a wood, where it probably breeds every season, as 

 the collectors shot another two years afterwards at the same 

 place and on the same date. 



Specimens obtained at Chinkiang do not differ from a 

 Chefoo specimen given to me by Mr. Styan. 



11. ACREDULA GLAUCOGULARIS (Goul(l). 



Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 342. 



This Long-tailed Tit is a very common resident. It 

 breeds in March and April. I have obtained eggs or seen 

 nests on the following dates : — 



March 22 (new nest, no eggs) ; March 22 (1 fresh 

 eg^ nest half torn down) ; March 30 (7 eggs, incubated) ; 

 April 9 (7 eggs, fresh) ; April 9 (8 eggs, incubated) ; 

 April 10 (five eggs, fresh) ; April 10 (two eggs, fresh) ; 

 April 10 (new nest, not finished) ; April 14 (6 eggs, hard-set) ; 

 April 18 (nest, with very young birds) ; April 20 (4 eggs, 

 incubated) ; April 20 (8 eggs, nearly hard-set) ; April 26 

 (nest, with half-fledged birds) ; April 29 (nest, with young 

 birds, feathers in quill). 



On April 20 I saw a family of young birds travelling along 

 a hedge and on May 20 1 shot two in their first plumage. 



The nest is generally placed in a cypress, a common tree 

 about Chinkiang, but not infrequently in a willow. That 

 seen on April 26 was in a dwarf pine, that on April 29 had 

 been taken from a tea-plant, besides which I have seen an old 

 nest on some dwarf bamboos in a wooded ravine. The fabric 

 is domed, of a more or less roundish-oval or oblong shape, 

 with the aperture near the top. It is made of moss, lichen, 

 scraps of grass, &c, bound with cobwebs, and has a very thick 

 lining of chickens' or wild doves' feathers. The measure- 



