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forest trees. They were usually in twos or threes, hut now 
and again a solitary individual was met with. When sus¬ 
picions of danger they instantly become silent and steal 
quietly away. One I examined had fed on insects and small 
larvae; another had in its stomach a huge white grub some 
2 inches in length. 
On 21st February my man shot a female at Yamakan, 
which he says he is sure (from the appearance of the organs) 
had already laid ! 
Two males in the flesh were 11*75 inches in length. Three 
females were 11*2, 11*2, and 11*4 inches. 
14. Gecinulus viridanus Slater, Ibis, 1897, p. 176. 
Much less common about Cliing Fung than the last. I 
heard its note on one occasion, and one of my men came 
across three in a small wood of pines and shot one of them. 
The note is much shorter than that of Lepocestes sinensis , 
and sounds like “ kwek, kwek.” 
A pair in the flesh measured:—<$. Length 11*0 inches, 
wing 5*2, eulmen 1*0. Length 10*6 inches, wing 5*1, 
culmen 1*0. 
My collectors shot six at Kuatun in the autumn of 1898. 
15. Dendrocopus insularis Gould, Ibis, 1897, p. 176; 
1898, p.333. 
Recorded in error as D. subcirris in Ibis, 1897, p. 602. 
My men obtained four specimens from Kuatun last autumn. 
We have not as yet received this bird from the Cliing Fung 
district. 
16. Harpactes yamakanensis Rickett, Bull. B. O. C. 
viii. p. xlviii; Ibis, 1899, p. 444. 
Three specimens of this Trogon were obtained at Yamakan 
in December 1898. I did not see them in a living state, so 
know r nothing of their habits or notes. 
A pair I handled in the flesh measured as follows :— 
$ . Length 13*8 inches, wing 6*0, tarsus 0*8. $ . Length 
14*0 inches, wing 5*9, tarsus 0*8. 
They had fed on berries; the stomach of the female also 
contained a few insect-remains. 
