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Yaid^e Valley. Notes on the nesting habits of Fukien birds are taken 

 from an unpublished manuscript by H. R. Caldwell, permission for the 

 use of which was very generously given. Where not otherwise stated the 

 descriptions are those of adult males in breeding plumage. The classical 

 Chinese names are taken principally from the Commercial Press Dictionary 

 of Zoological Terms and also from the ahcient Cliinese Dictionary called 

 Erh Ya (ff ^), and a few from Pen Tsao Kang My {:^^M @ Materia 

 Medica Sinensis of i6th Centary) and from Fukien Provincial Record, Great 

 credit is due to Mr. Chiang Ting I, (-^fi ^) one of the Seniors in the 

 Fukien Christian University for his interest in the work, and i^L the 

 preparation of the Chinese names. The descriptions are translated into 

 Chinese by Mr. Lee Hsiang Yuan. The nests and eggs of birds not 

 breeding in China are not described. 



The classification is that Wilder and Hubbard's List of the Birds of 

 Chihli Province, and the nomenclature that of Dr. E. Hartert in Birds of 

 tlu Palaarctic Region, the most modern system found of the birds of 

 China. 



Books of interest to the bird student in China are: 

 ^^^*^°" Color Key to some Central China Birds. 



Dresser, H. E. Manual of Palsarctic Birds. (H. E. Dresser, 



Hanover Sq. London) 1902. 

 Hartert, E. Birds of the Paleearctic Region (R. Fried- 



lander, Berlin) 19O1-1922. 

 La Touche Birds of Eastern China (Taylor & Francis, 



London) 1926. 

 Gee, Moffett Birds of Lower Tangtze Valley (Shanghai 



Mercury, Ltd.) 1917. 

 Wilder and Hubbard List of the Birds of Chihli Proviftce. (N. C. 



B. R. A. S.) 1924. 

 Gee, Moffett & Wilder Tentative List of Chinese Birds (Peking Soc. 



Nat. Hist.) 1926. 



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