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of Hongkong , Macao , and Canton. 
found everywhere, and soon commenced building-operations. It 
is the only and prevailing species. This bird has only one small 
caecum. 
15. Eurystomus orientalis (Linn.). Cantonese, “ Leuh-ko- 
tsoey.” 
I had the pleasure of meeting a pair of these birds at Wham¬ 
poa (the anchorage of Canton). While wandering under a group 
of lofty pines, I saw a bird sitting on a branch with head and 
body erect, while the tail and abdomen, from the shortness of 
its legs, seemed to lie along the branch. The red bill and bril¬ 
liant green and blue plumage soon showed me what it was, as it 
flitted with quick and smooth flight into the open. It was pre¬ 
sently joined by its mate, and they kept flying about, now rest¬ 
ing on a thick bough, now again on the wing, circling round 
the clump of trees. They uttered occasionally a note not un¬ 
like the “quack” of our Goatsucker, which bird it also often 
resembled in flight, and in its habit of sitting for the most part 
along a branch instead of across it. They were rather shy of 
approach; so I had to take them on the wing, and was fortunate 
enough to secure the pair. 
The male was larger than the female, and perhaps a little 
more brilliant in tints. The gizzard was oval, 1J in. long, 1J 
broad, and | thick, slightly muscular, lined with a flesh-yellow 
moveable cuticle much wrinkled with rugae, and containing 
insects—chiefly beetles and large bugs. Intestines somewhat 
fleshy, 19 in. long, and varying in thickness from | to in. 
Caeca 1J in. from anus; left 2§, right | in. in length, both 
bulging into black sacs at the apical third of their length. 
16. Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.). Turquoise Kingfisher. 
Cantonese, “ Fe-tsoey” 
Common. 
17. Alcedq bengalensis, Gmel. Cantonese, “ Tow-yii- 
long.” 
Common. 
18. Ceryle rudis (Linn.). Cantonese, “ Pun-tin-teo.” 
Common. 
