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Show 462 MR. W. R. OGILVIE GRANT O N [May 8, Corvus levaillanti, Lesson ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 (1892). Hainan birds of this species appear to belong to a slightly larger race. Common about the towns of Hainan (Swinhoe). 2. CORVUS TORQUATUS. Corvus torquatus, Less.; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 350; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 21 (1877) ; Hartl. Abh. .nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 (1892). Common in the plains of North and North-west Hainan (Swinhoe). 3. PICA PICA. Pica media, Blyth ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 350. Pica pica (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 62 (1877); Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 431. Pica caudata, Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 (1892), xiv. p. 366 (1898). Abundant everywhere (Swinhoe). 4. TJROCISSA ERYTHRORHYNCHA. Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Gmel.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 71 (1877) ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 312 (1892). An example of this species was procured in North Hainan by Tetsu, the late Mr. Schmacker's Japanese collector, and identified by Dr. Hartlaub. 5. * UROCISSA WHITEHEADI. Urocissa whiteheadi, Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. vol. x. p. xviii (1899). This remarkable species may be characterized as follows :- Sexes similar one to another in plumage. Head, back, fore-neck, and chest dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and shading into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff on the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts ; feathers of the crown rounded at the extremity and edged with whitish brown ; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts black, tipped with white ; wings black, except the lesser and median wing-coverts, which are white save at the base ; tips of the primary-quills, margins of the terminal half of the outer webs of the secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts pure white ; middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with white and with a subterminal black band ; the outer feathers similarly marked, but with the white tips increasing in size and shaded with yellow; axillaries and under wing-coverts clear yellowish white. " Iris straw-colour ; bill red, shading into brownish yellow at the base |
