634 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche— Field-Notes on 



other birds when they happen to come anywhere near the 

 nest-hole. I once saw a male furiously attack and drive 

 off a Spark-headed Woodpecker that was climbing about 

 some trees near its nursery; and after we had taken the 

 nest and eggs described above, the female, on seeing a 

 Lesser Tit fly to the branch where the hole was, darted 

 out from a neighbouring tree and drove it away. 



59. TERrsiPHONE inch (Gould). 



Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 350; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 40. 



Ince's Paradise Flycatcher is very common in summer, 

 arriving about the first week in May. It breeds in the tree- 

 and bamboo-copses on the plain and also in the woods on 

 the hills. The nests that I saw were placed at heights varying 

 from four to twenty feet from the ground. A very pretty 

 specimen found, empty as yet, on May 29, was made of bright 

 green moss and plentifully spangled outside with the downy 

 feathers of Avild Doves. The eggs are laid in June. Two 

 clutches of four eggs each and an incomplete clutch of 

 two, taken on June 10, 21, and 18 respectively, average 

 0-84 x 0-61" ; the largest of these is 0'87 x 0-64", the 

 smallest 0"82x0*59". The shape of eight of these eggs is 

 narrow ovate, the other two are rather broad ovate. 



White males are very common at Chinkiang, while at 

 Foochow they are comparatively scarce. 



60. Pratincola maura (Pall.). 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 337. 



A few pass in April and early in October. Those seen in 

 spring were all in full breeding-dress. 



61. Ruticilla aurorea (Pall.). 

 Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 338. 



A very common winter bird. 



62. Calliope camskatkensis (Gm.). 



Erithacus calliope (Pall.) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 338. 

 I shot a young male in some bushes by a pond on 

 November 3, and the collectors shot a female on May 21 



