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8. Grey-headed Black-faced Bunting, Emberiza s. spodocephala,
9. Yellow-browed Bunting, Emberiza chrysophrys.
Collared Crow, Corvus torquatus,
10.
II.
Crow Pheasant, Centropus s. sinensis.
12. Indian Cuckoo, Cuculus m. micropterus.
13.
Chinese Dayal Bird (Magpie Robin), Copscychus sauluris prosthopellus.
14.
Chinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia s, sinensis,
15. Chinese Hair-crested Drongo, Chibbia hottentotta brevirostris.
16.
Little Egret, Egretta g. garzetta.*
17. Cattle Egret, Bubulcus ibis coromandus.*
18. Flycatcher spp.
19. Black-crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax n. nycticorax.
Chinese Pond Heron, Ardeola_bacchus.*
20.
21.
22.
*
Eastern Little Blue Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis bengalensis.* Eastern White-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis fusca.* 23. Himalayan Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle lugubris guttulata.
24.
Indian Koel, Eudynamis orientalis_honorata.*
25. Chinese Magpie, Pica pica sericea.*
26. Chinese Blue Magpie, Urocissa e. erythrorhyncha.*
27. Chinese Spotted Munia, Uroloncha punctulata topela.
Black-necked Mynah, Gracupica nigricollis.*
28.
29.
Crested Mynah, Aethiopsar c. cristatellus.
30. Eastern Tree Pipit, Anthus trivialis hodgsoni.
31.
32.
33.
34-
35.
Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus.
Richard's Pipit, Anthus richardi sinensis. Owl sp.*
Daurian Redstart, Phenicurus a. auroreus. Rufous-backed Shrike, Lanius_s._schach.*
36. South China Silver-eye, Zosterops simplex simplex. 37. Chinese Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus saturatus. 38. Chinese Stonechat, Saxicola torquata stejnegeri.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Eastern House Swallow, Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Violet Whistling Thrush, Myiophoneus c. cœruleus. Chinese Tailor Bird, Orthotomus sutorius longicauda.* South China Grey Tit, Parus cinereus commixtus. Eastern Grey Wagtail, Motacilla cinerea caspica.
44. Streak-eyed Wagtail, Motacilla ocularis,
45. White-faced Wagtail, Motacilla lugubris leucopsis.
46. Warbler spp.
47.
White-breasted Waterhen, Amaurornis p. phœnicurus.
NOTE: The above list is far from complete. Further observations should add considerably to it.
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THE INSECT MENACE.
(L. O. Howard :-D. Appleton and Co., London, 12/6 Nett). A. H. CROOK,
This is a wonderfully fascinating and very important book. Howard's name alone, if nothing else would insure this.
Dr.
It is not a text-book of entomology nor yet a handbook of insect pests on plants. But it is a clarion call, and a vision of what the enlighten- ed entomologist sees as the duty of the present and the hope of the near future.
The book is a mass of interesting facts about insects, their modes of life and metamorphoses, their parasites and enemies and about applied insecticides. But these are only asides so to say. The main outline might be put thus. On the surface of the earth at the present time two groups— man and the insects-may be counted as the only animals which are de- finitely on the increase. It is a neck and neck race between them for the mastery of the world.
The insects have the pull in time and adaptation,
for they have been on the earth for millions of years before man appeared, and they have, so to say, 'dug themselves well in.' Man is a recent arrival. He is, too, a bit of a green horn,' (This, however, is by the way). Many things, but three especially, the gregarious life adopted by man the domestication of animals and the domestication of plants,-have given the insects unwonted opportunies for mass reproduction. We are constantly herding ourselves in great cities, growing huge areas with masses of food crops, and collecting great herds of cattle. All these are just feeding Not grounds for insects, and they have utilised the advantage to the full. much wonder that the insects have found in these great sources of supply a Then man has taken it magnificent chance of breeding by the million. into his head to move about-with ever increasing rapidity. The result can easily be guessed. Insects have constantly found themselves in a new environment, a perfect paradise, where their old enemy controls have not yet arrived. The result may be, and often has been, a plague of insects.
Are man and his food supply to be thus eaten out of the world altogether? And is man to be driven from the face of the earth?
At times
it looks as if this would be the result-but civilised man is waking up.
This volume will be widely read with great interest, but there are few places where it would be read with greater advantage and profit than in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an insects' paradise.
No resident needs to be told that. But what does the resident think of the loss of life, the And what efforts and damage, and the annoyance which these pests cause? expenditure are being put forth in Hong Kong to regulate and control this awful wastage? One need only mention the names of three or four classes of insects to bring the matter home and there are thousands of others.
COCKROACHES are a constant annoyance and destroying food, clothing, books, pictures, and what not. done to get rid of them and to reduce their ravages?
pest in the Colony, But what is being There is in Hong
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