Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1900

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476 MR. W. R. OGILVIE GRANT O N [May 8, the lower back and upper tail-coverts; tbe lores and feathers surrounding the eye and on the fore part of the cheek black; tbe hinder part of the cheek and ear-coverts with a large rounded patch of bright chestnut; the chin, throat, and upper part of the chest brownish black; and the rest of the underparts grey, tinged with greenish on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts. " Bill and eye black; legs and feet dark blackish brown."-/. W. Total length 10-7 inches ; wing 5-0; tail 5-0 ; tarsus 1*75. Hab. Five-Fiuger Mts., interior of Hainan. 77. *DRYONASTES MONACHUS. Garrulax monachus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 248 ; Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 309 (1892). Drgonastes monachus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 457 (1883) ; Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 427. " Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dusky black."-J. W. Interior of Hainan (Swinhoe). South-west Hainan (Styan). 78. *POMATORHINUS NIGROSTELLATUS. Pomatorhinus nigrostellatus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 250; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 425(1883); Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. pp. 299, 308 (1892); Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 427. Pomatorhinus musicus, Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, xiv. p. 348 (1898) (part., Hainan). This species, though nearly allied to the Chinese form P. stridulus, Swinh., may be at once distinguished by the dark olive colour of the upper parts and the deep reddish-brown middles to the feathers of the fore-neck and chest. " Tip of upper and lower mandible straw-yellow; iris pale brown; feet dark brown."-J. W. Central Hainan (Swinhoe). Interior of South-west Hainan (Styan). 79. *STACHYRIDOPSIS RUFICEPS. Stachyrhis prcecognitus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 310 (Formosa). Stachiiridopsis ruficeps (Blyth); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 598 (1883). This is the first time this species has been recorded from Hainan. There appear to be three fairly well-marked races of S. ruficeps :- a. Typical examples from India with the cap extending over the nape, and of the pale chestnut-colour characteristic of Chinese birds. b. Chinese examples with the cap confined to the crown and generally of a pale chestnut-colour. o. Birds from Formosa and Hainan with the cap of a deeper chestnut-colour and extending on to the nape. This is the form which has been described as S. prcecognitus by Swinhoe. " Iris deep lake; upper mandible black, lower white; legs greyish yellow."-J. W.