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conspicuous than in the above-named speeies. Scops la- 
touchii differs chiefly from S. icterorhyncha in having the 
feathers of the head and mantle distinctly barred with black 
and rufous buff; but the barring is mostly concealed by the 
wide reddish-brown tips to the feathers, which ai’e very finely 
vermiculated with black ; the tail is rather strongly marked 
with irregular bars and mottiings of black on a brownish-red 
ground ; the bars on the outermost primaries are rufous buff 
instead of white; the underparts are whitish buff, shading into 
rufous on the upper breast and flanks, entirely devoid of dark 
shaft-streaks, but very finely vermiculated with brownish 
black ; the feathers covering the basal part of the belly, 
vent, and the longish flank-plumes are pure white, some of the 
latter, like the under tail-coverts, having reddish-brown bars. 
Total length about 9‘0 inches, wing 5‘9, tail 3'5, tarsus 
115. 
Hab. Ah Ch'ung, Fohkien, 16th December, 1899. 
Mr. Digby Pigott communicated a note from his friend 
Mr. J. R. Dasent, C.B., who had just returned from his 
yearly visit to the island of St. Vincent, West Indies. 
Mr. Dasent stated that the destruction of bird-life of all 
kinds by the hurricane of September 1898 had been very 
great. A small bronze-green Humming-bird, which had 
before been the commonest and boldest bird in the island, 
had, it was believed, entirely disappeared. During the seven 
weeks of Mr. DasenPs stay he had not noticed one of these 
birds, though on previous visits they were to be seen, sitting 
on telephone wires &c., and as plentiful as Swallows in 
summer in England. Mr. Thompson, the Administrator, 
had told him that since the hurricane he had neither himself, 
nor had he met with anyone who had, observed one of these 
birds. Two other Humming-birds, formerly less common 
than the extinguished species, still exist in the island, but 
in much reduced numbers. 
A Parrot, usually to be found only with difficulty in the 
mountain forests, and a Pigeon (known locally as “ Ra- 
mier^’) — also an exceptionally shy bird — after the hurricane. 
