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the lower back and upper tail-coverts; the lores and feathers 

 surrounding the eye and on the fore part of the cheek black ; the 

 hinder part of the cheek and ear-coverts with a large rounded 

 patch of bright chestnut ; the chin, throat, and upper part of the 

 chest brownish black ; and the rest of the underparts grey, tinged 

 with greenish on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts. 



" Bill and eye black; legs and feet dark blackish brown." — J. W. 



Total length 10-7 inches; wing 5-0; tail 5*0 ; tarsus 1'75. 



Hab. Five-Finger Mts., interior of Hainan. 



77. *Dryonastes monachus. 



Garrulax monachus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 248 ; Hartl. Abh. 

 nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 309 (1892). 



Dryonastes monachus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 457 

 (1883) ; Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 427. 



" Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dusky black." — J. W. 



Interior of Hainan (Siuinhoe). 



South-west Hainan (Styan). 



78. *POMATORHINTJS NIGROSTELIiATUS. 



Pomatorhinus niyrostellattis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 250; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 425(1883); Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, 

 xii. pp. 299, 308 (1892) ; Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 427. 



Pomatorliinus musicus, Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xiv. p. 348 

 (1898) (part., Hainan). 



This species, though nearly allied to the Chinese form P. stridulus, 

 Swinh., may be at once distinguished by the dark olive colour 

 of the upper parts and the deep reddish-brown middles to the 

 feathers of the fore-neck and chest. 



" Tip of upper and lower mandible straw-yellow; iris pale brown ; 

 feet dark brown." — J. W. 



Central Hainan (Swinhoe). 



Interior of South-west Hainan (Styan). 



79. *Stachyridopsis ruficeps. 



Stachyrhis prcecognitus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 310 (Formosa). 

 Stacht/ridopsis ruficeps (Blyth) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. 

 p. 598 (1883). 



This is the first time this species has been recorded from Hainan . 

 There appear to be three fairly well-marked races of S. ruficeps : — 



a. Typical examples from India with the cap extending over 

 the nape, and of the pale chestnut-colour characteristic of Chinese 

 birds. 



b. Chinese examples with the cap confined to the crown and 

 generally of a pale chestnut-colour. 



e. Birds from Formosa and Hainan with the cap of a deeper 

 chestnut-colour and extending on to the nape. This is the form 

 which has been described as S. prcecognitus by Swinhoe. 



" Iris deep lake ; upper mandible black, lower white ; legs 

 greyish yellow." — J. W. 



