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45. Pericrocotus cantonensis Swinlioe. 



Several were seen during May 1909, and a nesting pair with 

 a partly built nest noticed on the 22nd of that mouth. 



46. Campophaga melanoptera (Riippell). 

 A second example was shot on 8 May 1909. 



49. Spodiopsar cineraceus (Temm.). 



Young birds seen in the possession of local bird-catchers 

 were said to have come from Ilaichow, on the coast of 

 Kiangsu, nortli of the Yangtse. 



56. Cyanoptila bella Hay. 



Cyanoptila cyanomelocna La TouchCj Ibis, 1906, p. 622. 



I purchased in October 1909 a young male in parti^ 

 coloured plumage, which lived only until the following 

 spring. This bird, like most of those taken at Shaweishau 

 or seen by me on the lower Yangtse, had unspotted upper 

 parts. It began its moult at the end of December, and 

 early in January a few patches of dark blue had appeared 

 on the upper back, some of the feathers of which on the 

 16th of January were still partly in the quill. Then 

 patches of bluish black began to show on the sides of the 

 throat and on the breast. On the 16th of January one 

 small blue feather was showing on the forehead at the base 

 of the bill. Had fresh insect food been procurable then^ 

 I should most probably have succeeded in rearing this bird 

 to maturity, as it is not a very uncommon cage-bird in 

 China; but it died before the return of the warm weather. 

 This bird had a feeble but pleasant song — a warble broken 

 by the usual Flycatcher^s " cliack." 



58. Xanthopygia tricolor Blyth. 



A nestling purchased alive was coloured as follows : — ■ 

 Sides of head, mantle, and upper tail-coverts olive-brown 

 spotted with dull buff ; wings blackish brown, quills edged 

 with olive, the larger coverts broadly margined with the 

 same and tipped broadly with dull buflf, the lesser coverts 

 spotted with rather bright huffish yellow, thus forming 

 two broad wing-bars ; rump yellow ; tail like the wings ; 



