the Birds of Chinkiang. 5 
Chinkiang I saw it but once, as stated above ; at Foochow 
it is a scarce winter visitant ; at Amoy it is a very common 
resident ; at Swatow I have never seen it. 
123. Evrystomus catonyx Sharpe. 
Eurystomus orientalis (.) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 483. 
Eurystomus calonyx Sharpe; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 
1905, p. 48. 
This species passes in May, September, and October. 1 
do not think that it breeds about Chinkiang. The collectors 
shot a female in very bright plumage on May 20. 
124. ALcepo BENGALENSIS Briss. 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 483; La Touche & Rickett, Ibis, 
1905, p. 50. 
Abundant and resident. On May 6 I took six eggs from 
a hole in the bank of a pond; on May 12 and June 16 
I bought three and six eggs from natives. The latter were 
incubated. Nine eggs average 0°82x0°70”, the largest 
measuring 0°84 x 0°71 and the smallest 0°80 x 0:70". 
125. Hateyon piteatus (Bodd.). 
Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 483; La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 44. 
Heard in May and seen in September. 
126. Acanruyiuis caupacuta (Lath.). 
Chetura caudacuta (Lath.); Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 481. 
These beautiful Swifts appear to pass regularly in May. 
On May 13, 1901, Mr. E. G. Byrne, of this port, shot one 
from a flock of about twenty which he met with in the plain 
while Snipe-shooting. A few days afterwards he noticed 
others flying about the summits of our highest hills. On 
May 25, 1902, the collector Wang Wang and I each shot one 
on the same hills. There were quite a number flying about 
the hill-tops and several came within gun-shot. The two 
which we shot were females, and measured in the flesh 8°35 
and 8 in. in length. They were very fat, and the stomach of 
one was crammed with fragments of a large species of bug 
(? Eusthenes sp.); that of the other was equally full of insects 
(a kind of gold-coloured weevil). The collectors saw these 
Swifts several times during May, but always high in the 
