on the Birds of Cluna. 265 



100. CoTiLE FOHKiENEXsis La Touchc. 



Cotile 7'iparia La Touclie, Ibis, 1906, p. 637. 



Cotile fohkienensis La Touche, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxiii. 

 1908, p. 17. 



The ouly two Sand-Martins procured by rae at Chiiikiang 

 were of this new species, which appears to summer in the 

 vicinity. Most probably all those seen by me near Chiu- 

 kiang were of the same kind, not C. rijiarla L. It is easily 

 distinguished from the latter by its much paler and more 

 uniform upper parts and by its short and nearly square tail. 



110a. Anthus CERviNus (Pall.). 



Anthus cervinus Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 344. 



The Red-throated Pipit occasionally occurs at Chinkiang. 

 I shot a specimen near Chinkiang on 25 April 1909, and 

 saw a number of others on the same daj^, and also, I believe, 

 on the 10th of October following. 



115 a. Alaudula cheleensis Swinhoe. 



Calandrella cheleensis David & Oustalet, Oiseaux de la 

 Chine, p. 317. 



During my second stay at Chinkiang the bird-catchers 

 used to bring baskets full of nestlings, which they said came 

 from the neighbourhood of Haichow, a seaport in Kiangsu, 

 north of the Yangtse. This bird is very abundant, according 

 to Staff-Surgeon Jones, R.N., at Weihaiwei, on the coast of 

 Shantung {Calandrella pispoletta, Jones, Ibis, 1911, p. 671). 



133 a. ? HiERococcYx hyperythrus Gould. 



? Cuculus hyperythrus David & Oustalet, Oiseaux de la 

 Chine, p. 64-. 



A young Cuckoo seen on 2 September 1910, in the 

 possession of a bird-catcher at Chinkiang, and which the 

 man assured me had been caught on the Hua Shan Hills, 

 about twenty miles south-west of Chinkiang, seemed to me to 

 be of this species. Its colour was greyish brown above, with 

 chestnut tips or spots on the wing; the crown had a number 

 of white feathers ; the underparts were whitish with longi- 

 tudinal brown spots. The bill was greenish grey, the legs 

 bright lemon-yellow, and the iris grey. 



