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

 and fro with every puff of wind. 



79. Lanius scliacli, 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 ñame was first applied. 



80. Lanius lucionensis, Strickland. 



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

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

 N. H. XIX (1847), p. 132. He considers there that all 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 dnring the seasons of migration, and 

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



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



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

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

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

 description of the female in the Fauna Japónica. 



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 ; buílds in 

 holes of trees or walls, or makes large oval ncsts in trces ; 

 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 ; builds round 



* The Prince of Canino considered this to be diíTerent from true cristatellus 

 oí the Philippines, and adopted the ñame fuliginoms, Bí., for tho China species. 

 Cur. As. Sog. 



