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loud " tack ! tack ! " then, flying close to the ground, seeks a 

 fresh eminence and repeats its clieerful call. 



Early iu the morning, whilst it is still dark, this bird sings 

 a liitle song, but after sunrise it remains silent, except for 

 its usual " tack ! tack ! " As is the case with many other 

 Avinter visitors to this part of China, the majority of these 

 birds are immature. 



Terpsiphone inch. 



The Chinese Paradise Flycatcher is partly a bird of 

 passage and partly a summer visitor ; it was seen at various 

 places on passage in April and September, whilst of three 

 nests two were found in May and one in July. 



This species is commoner in Kwang Si than in Kwang 

 Tung, but it is only up the North liiver that males in the 

 white phase of plumage were iound breeding. 



One skin, iu white plumage, has faint traces of chestnut 

 on two of the long tail-feathers. 



A nest was four inches deep and three across, shaped 

 like an inverted cone ; it was built into a fork of a tree, 

 the apex of the cone doAvnwards, and was composed of 

 moss, grass, vegetable down, spiders' cocoons, strips of old 

 paper, and strips of bark loosely felted together with 

 cobwebs. It was lined with fine grass. 



Nine eggs average 'SOX'OG, and vary in length from '82 

 to '74 and in width from '60 to •54. An egg will be figured 

 on Plate V. fig. 10 of the April number. 



Terpsiphone princeps. 



This beautiful Flycatcher is a regular migrant, passing 

 through during the first half of April on its way north, 

 and returning from the end of August until the middle 

 of September; but unlike Terpsiphune incii it keeps to the 

 coast for the most part, and has not been seen more than 

 a hundred miles inland. 



These birds make their spring journey at the wettest 

 time of the year, when torrential tropical rains often pour 

 down for days on end ; and how they succeed in keeping 



