the Birds of Chin/dang. G29 



inner cup, which is shallow. It seems to have been knocked 

 about. 



The eggs taken on June 14, 1903, and the incubated 

 clutch of four taken on May 29, 1901, are of a broad ovate 

 shape, and are coloured light olive-green with roundish and 

 drop-like surface-spots and twisted broad lines and a few 

 hair-lines of very dark brown (the lines beginning or ending 

 in the spots) and shell-spots and lines of very dark dull violet- 

 grey with fainter lines of the same. These markings are 

 distributed pretty well all over the shell. Measurements vary 

 from 0-87 x 0-71" to 094 x 074" (average 091 X 0'73"). 

 The three fresh eggs taken on May 29 are of a long ovate 

 shape. The ground-colour is a light greyish green ; the 

 spots and lines are very dark and almost confined to the 

 broad extremity. Measurements : 0'97 X 0-68", 0"97 x 0*67", 

 and 093 X 069". The single egg brought to me on June 10 

 is very large : 1*01 x 0*74". It is of a long ovate shape and 

 resembles those last described. The marks are chiefly con- 

 fined to the broader half of the shell. 



78. Eophona migratoria Hartert. 



Eophona melanura migratoria Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, 

 1903, p. 59. 



This small form of E. melanura passes Chinkiang in 

 May. A male and two females were shot by the collectors 

 on May 3 and 5, 1902. It is this bird which is found in 

 winter in Fohkien (see c Ibis/ 1892, p. 427). It is notice- 

 ably smaller than typical E. melanura. 



So far as I could make out from the series in the British 

 Museum collection, this Hawfinch is found in Yunnan, 

 Kwangtung, and Kiangsi, as well as in Fohkien. The speci- 

 mens in the B.M. collection from East Siberia appear to me 

 to be very much greyer and paler than any of the Chinese 

 examples which I have seen, with the exception of one in my 

 series from Fohkien, which is also a pale bird, intermediate 

 in tint between Siberian and Chinese examples. 



79. Eophona magnirostris Hartert. 



Eophona personata (T. & S.) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 36. 



