462 me. w. r. ogilvie grant otf [May 8, 



Corvus levaillanti, Lesson ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. 

 pp. 299,312(1892). 



Hainan birds of this species appear to belong to a slightly 

 larger race. 



Common about the towns of Hainan (Swinhoe). 



2. Corvus torquatus. 



Corvus torquatus, Less. ; Swinhoe, Ibis,- 1870, p. 350 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 21 (1877) ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 (1892). 



Common in the plains of North and North-west Hainan 

 (Swinhoe). 



3. Pica pica. 



Pica media, Blyth ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 350. 



Pica pica (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 62 (1877) ; 

 Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 431. 



Pica caudata, Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 

 (1892), xiv. p. 366 (1898). 



Abundant everywhere (Swinhoe). 



4. Urocissa erythrorhyncha. 



Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Ginel.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. 

 p. 71 (1877) ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 

 (1892). 



An example of this species was procured in North Hainan by 

 Tetsu, the late Mr. Schmaeker's Japanese collector, and identified 

 by Dr. Hartlaub. 



5. *Urocissa whiteheadi. 



Urocissa whiteheadi, Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. vol. x. p. xviii 

 (1899). 



This remarkable species may be characterized as follows : — 

 Sexes similar one to another in plumage. Head, back, fore-neck, 

 and chest dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and 

 shading into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff 

 on the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts ; feat hers 

 of the crown 'rounded at the extremity and edged with whitish 

 brown ; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts black, tipped 

 with white ; wings black, except the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts, which are white save at the base ; tips of the primary- 

 quills, margins of the terminal half of the outer webs of the 

 secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts pure white ; 

 middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with white and with a 

 subterminal black band ; the outer feathers similarly marked, but 

 with the white tips increasing in size and shaded with yellow ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts clear yellowish white. " Iris 

 straw-colour ; bill red, shading into brownish yellow at the base ; 



