TENTH SERIES. 



Vol. II. No. 2. APRIL 1914. 



A' III. — iSome Notes on the Habits and Distribution of Para- 

 doxornis heiulei David, ^y Capt. Hubert Lynes, R.N., 

 M.B.O.U. 



(Plates VII.-IX.) 



Pasaboxomnis heubei, one of tlie most northerly-ranging 

 of the Oriental group of birds known as '' Crow-Tits/' was 

 first made known to science in 1872 by Pere David* from 

 specimens obtained by Pere Heude near Nanking, on the 

 lower Yangtze Kiang. The species has since been made 

 better known by several ornithologists — e-ff., Styan (near 

 Nanking, vide ^ Ibis,' 1891, p. 336), La Touclie (near 

 Chinkiang, vide ^ Ibis/ 1906, p. 438), and others — from the 

 same localities. 



All the foregoing information relates to winter observations 

 and specimens only; the breeding-habits and range of the 

 species were unknown, and no material for the precise 

 determination of its systematic position appears to have 

 been available, except a few skins obtained in the winter 

 time. 



Whilst in command of H.M.S. ' Cadmus,' 1910-12, 

 engaged chiefly on duties in the waters of the lower Yangtze, 

 I was able to make myself more or less familiar w^th the 

 bird's habits, and to discover its breeding-haunts, proving 

 the species' to be strictly sedentary ; I was also able to send 



* Coiuptes Reiidus, Ixxiv. p. 1449. 

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