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When the hen is sitting the male keeps watch in a 

 neighbouring tree and gives her timely warning of an 

 intruder's approach, when she silently slips off her eggs 

 and joins him in the air. 



Eggs vary in length from •82 to "74 and in hreadth from 

 •62 to ^58; they average '77 x'GO. An example will be 

 figured on Plate V. fig. 6 of the April number. 



Its food is chiefly insects with occasional green seeds. 



Pericrocotus griseigularis. 



Small flocks of this species occur every winter at Howlik, 

 but nowhere else in Kwang Tnng or Kwang Si ; they 

 consist almost entirely of females and confine themselves to 

 the tree-tops. These Minivets have been observed to hover 

 before berries, after the fashion of Phylloscopus proregulus, 

 and their food, as demonstrated by their crops, appears to 

 be partly seeds aud partly insects. 



Pericrocotus cinereus. 



The Ashy Minivet occurs only on passage during the 

 spring and autumn migrations, and is much more easily 

 observed on the former. 



About April 5th a flock is always to be seen on a 

 certain clump of trees at Samshui ; many of these are 

 immature and most of them are females ; they are very 

 silent, perhaps because of the scarcity of males, and they 

 soon pass on to the north again. Up the North River a few 

 of these birds were seen in May, but apparently they were 

 not breeding. 



At the end of October and early in November a small 

 party has been seen at Samshui, passing south, but in all 

 probability most of them go through at night. They fly 

 high at this time of year, and are in haste to be gone. 



Hemichelidon griseisticta. 



Muscicapo (/riseislicfa (Swinh.); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. 

 p. 153. 



