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further. A hunter crossed the ravine, and from the concealment 
of the bushes had two more shots at it. The bird nevertheless 
escaped. We crossed the ravine, and walking past a banyan 
perceived a commotion among its branches. Out came several 
Green Doves. I knocked one over. It was a fine male Treron 
formosce. A little further on I bagged a female of the same 
species. The iris of the dying bird had alternate rings of 
bright purple and black, with an outer ring of blood-red. I 
descended into a ravine under some lofty leafy trees. Some 
green birds were hopping heavily about the top branches, very 
slow in their movements, tame, and not scared at the noise of a 
gun. I shot one, and picked up a Megal&ma nuchalis. Its iris 
was chestnut; the feet pale grass-green. Dendrocittce were 
passing from tree to tree with very undulating flight, and 
Hypsipetes was chasing Zosterops. The Sparrows about the 
mountain villages were the ordinary Passer montanus. 
In the afternoon we visited a delightful glen, with fine wood 
all round it. Here Sibia auricularis was the commonest bird, 
flying in parties one after the other along the high branches of 
the trees. Its call-note was very like the sibilant note of a 
Wren ( Troglodytes europceus), and its habits very like that of a 
Tree- Garrulax. One would occasionally whistle to another. 
One of my hunters put up an Oreoperdix , and found that it had 
deposited an egg, which was white, and quite similar to the one 
I had procured before. Bamhusicolce were crying all around us. 
The Green Dove, too, we heard, and I then learned what the 
Chinese meant by comparing its note to the shouting of women 
to their pigs. It sounded like a man with a bad ear and a loud 
voice attempting to coo like a dove. The noise was quite 
startling. I procured a mature Turtur rupicolus (Pall.). Several 
Crows ( Corvus colonorum ) were flying about, and Garrulax 
taivanus and Pomatorhinus musicus both abundant. In the 
mud of the watercourse I detected the footprints of some large 
Wader. The hunters said that they were made by the feet of 
Cormorants; but there were no indications of the interdigital 
web. They must have been those of the Black Stork ( Ciconia 
nigra) . A pair of dark Heron-like birds with red bills and legs 
were seen by a friend on a former visit to the interior. From 
