30 Lieut. R. E. Vaiighan and Staff-Surg. K. H. Jones 



They arrive al)out the 8th or lOtli of April, and at once 

 commence chasing one another, and uttering many and 

 various courting notes, which are not heard after pairing 

 has taken place, when they confine themselves to their 

 sweet and flute-like little song. 



The nests of this species are well known and do not need 

 to be described ; in Kwang Tung and Kwang Si they are 

 usually placed in a Bombax or a fir-tree, but not infrequently 

 in a Banyan, always at a considerable elevation, and at the 

 outer extremity of a thin branch, where they are most difficult 

 of access. 



The eggs are to be found, as a rule, in the third week of 

 ]May, but occasionally much earlier, and a pair in the 

 Yamen at Samshui had young a week old on June 1st. 



On one occasion a male was seen to fly to a stump, from 

 wdiich he tore olf strips of bark and carried them away. 



These birds are very truculent, and the pair in the Sam- 

 shui Yamen wage incesstmt war on the Chinese Blackbirds, 

 which build in the same tree. 



It is doubtful whether tv/o broods are reared, but fresh 

 eggs have been found as late as July 5th. The usual clutch 

 is four eggs; often three, and sometimes only two are laid. 



The old female sometimes assumes the colouring of the 

 male, and a pair, both with the brilliant plumage of the 

 cock, were seen to have a nest. 



In the third week of August the Orioles take their 

 departure, but an occasional bird may be seen as late as 

 September 28Lh, whilst on rare occasions an individual will 

 spend the whole winter in Kwang Tung. 



The eggs of this species average I'lSx^SO, and they 

 vary in length from 1-75 to TOG and in width from 

 '87 to -77. 



ClIIBIA HOTTENTOTTA. 



These Drongo-Shrikes are summer visitors to the forest 

 at Howlik in Kwang Tung, the only place in that province 

 where they occur, but they are common enough in Kwang Si, 

 especially at Kwei Hsien. They arrive about the third week 

 in April, and have disappeared from Howlik by the last week 



