collected in South China. 
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residence as the hills in the west of Hunan and the plateau 
of Kwei-chu and Yunnan. 
We had travelled from Hankau to Bharno, about 2360 
miles, of which about 880 were by water, and the rest, 
1480, by land. Excluding halts, we managed 13J miles a 
day by boat against the current and with numberless rapids, 
over each of which it required from fifteen to twenty trackers 
to haul the boat; and by road we averaged 18£ miles a day, 
including halts. We were 130 days actually on the march 
by river and road. During that portion of the journey 
between Kwei-yang and Bhamo, we went up and down over 
2000 feet more than twenty times ; while on eight occasions 
we went down 3000 feet and up again a similar height in a 
distance of only 10 miles. These figures speak for them¬ 
selves, and give some idea of the very mountainous character 
of the Kweichu and Yunnan provinces. 
“ There is a fine field for the scientific explorer and for the 
artist and sportsman in Hunan and Kweichu; the rivers of 
the former province would delight the fisherman’s heart .” 
Capt. Wingate’s collection includes examples of three 
species hitherto undescribed, viz. : Phylloscopus subaffinis , 
Siva wingatii , and Sitta yunnanensis ; and of a like number of 
species not represented in the British Museum Collection, viz.: 
Malacias desgodinsi, Proparus bieti, and Palceornis salvadorii. 
Among other rarities included in the present collection, 
I would draw especial attention to a pair of the splendid 
Merganser Merganser squamatus, figured on Plate XII. by 
Mr. G. E. Lodge, and hitherto known only from a young male 
described by Gould in 1864; the rare Babbling-Thrush, 
Babax lanceolatus ; an equally scarce Hill-Tit, Schoeniparus 
genestieri ; and, lastly, the hitherto unknown male of the 
rare Kestrel Cerchneis saturata. 
I now give a list of the species of which specimens were 
obtained by Capt. Wingate, and add the exact localities and 
some of the collector’s field-notes. 
1. CORVUS TORQUATUS. 
Corvus torquatus Less.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. 
p. 21 (1877); David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 368 (1877). 
