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season, sitting on nests in the same bamboo -tree, swaying to 

 and fro with every puff' of wind. 



79. Lanius schacli, L. 



Very common ; has a great habit of shrieking. This is a much 

 larger race than that found in the Indian archipelago, and is 

 no doubt worthy of specific distinction ; it remains only to be 

 ascertained to which of the two the name was first applied. 



80. Lanius lucionensis, Strickland. 



With reference to this species, Mr. Blyth observes that this " is 

 decidedly the true L. liccionensis, vide Strickland, Ann. Mag. 

 N. H. XIX (1847), p. 132. He considers there that aU the 

 various allied races are varieties only of the same. My notion 

 is that there are 3 or 4 cognate races, which may breed toge- 

 ther when circumstances permit of it, and so grade into one 

 another. Certes a Malayan superciliosus is very unlike your 

 lucionensis." 



These are common here during the seasons of migration, and 

 I have received them this autumn from Mr. Holt at Fowchow. 



81. Enneoctonus bucephalus, (Temm. and Schleg.) 



I have never met but one of this species here, and that proved 

 a female. It has a large rufous head without the usual black 

 face-band of the family, and answers in every respect to the 

 description of the female in the Fauna Japonica. 



82. Corvus torquatus, Cuv. [Vide J. A. S. XXIX, 96.] 

 Our common and only crow at Amoy. 



83. Pica media, Blyth ; — sericea, Gould. 



Very common. 



84. Acridotheres cristatellus, (L.) # 



A very common species from Hongkong to Shanghai ; builds in 

 holes of trees or walls, or makes large oval nests in trees ; 

 learns to speak with facility and soon becomes docile. 



85. Gracupica {nigricollis,) Paykull ; temporalis, Temminck ; tricolor, 



J. E. Gray. 

 A common resident, associating in small parties 5 builds round 



* The Prince of Canino considered tins to be different from true cristatellus 

 of the Philippines, and adopted the name fidigiihosus, Bl. t for the China specie;. 

 Cur. As. Soc, 



