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but also upon insects which they seek among the leaves and branches of the trees. The ordinary note is a mellow cheerful whistle." The dense foliage of the Island of Hongkong makes it (By Rev. G. A. Bunbury, M.A., Principal favourite shede for these birds," who ofe

of Diocesan Training College, Canton.)

resident here. All three species men- [These notes are the result of observationed below are quite commen. tions made during the past few years, in the intervals of Mission work. They do not profess to be exhaustive. It is hoped that they may serve as finger-posta ko other observers in this interesting field.]

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(11 Otecompss emeria, the Chinese Ro- kai-ing, very common throughout the Colony. On the mainland this bird hat a strange distribution, being very rare at Canton, while it is said to be quite com- | mon at Fatshan. This bird may always be known by its black crest. The pate PRETTY SHOW GIRLS, and nape are also black, the back and tail green-brown, the throat white, the breast grey: there are some red feathers under the tail. The bird bas no song but utters a series of four notes which sound like "protity fellow."

The Perching Birds, ried above, have (with the exception of the Dreng all belonged to families known in our own ecuntries, though the species has usually differed. Thus we found that the locul lack and wagtail were awn brothers thos of the Iritish Isles. (Indeed

Evenoustes atricapillus, the Chinese one is inclined to wonder whether migra Hangeld-fat, so called from the red tion routes are strictly followed by birds, feathers which it shares with the bird whether wagtail who winters one just mentioned. It is quite common in

(3) Pymnotus, sinensis, the Chinese white headed grand-father, called

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22nd day -f October, 1912

All Creditors are accordingly hereby assing are cousins rather than brothers: ul song. required to send in their claims to the they belong to the same genus but not to the same species. Thus one of the Undersized on or before that date.

resident Thrushes of the British Isles are Dated this 8th day of October, 1919.

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his white nape of the neck. Like the two other bulbule, thia bird is usually found among follage. where the bright white of its neck makes it somewhat conspicuous. bird is to the Chinese beart all that 25th and 26th October, 1912, the robin is to the English, "the best-

This

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beloved of birds." "It is a good bird" A PAIR OF With the perching birds mentioned is the Chinese verliet. Its song is not below, the stay-at-home Briton has introrth mention, but its call is a series of even a bowing acquaintance. They are five quick notes-said to sound like almost all confined to tropical or sub.

Sweet-heart give a kiss "*: tropical régions, and four out of the six families are represented in this region by only one species each.

THE BADGLERS.

THE MISIVETS. There is one species of these birds in this region: Pericrocotos, the male a dull red the female canary-colour. They are The character and limits of this lurge rare, and I have only once seen them: Old-World family." says the British then I saw a couple amid thick foliège Museum Guide, still imperfectly in a garden at Shlu-hing on the West L-nderstood. They may be gerally River. 1544 characterized as tbrush-like birds with well-developed bristles at the gaps, short,

These birds are very frequently seen rounded, coresve wings sitting closely to in cages, being caught easily overy the body, and short metatarsi. majority are decidedly terrestrine inspring, and reared by the poorer classes. Thoir Chinese name Pak-ngaus-huen their habits, creeping singly or in small white eye-ring) exactly describes their

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companies among thick undergrowth,"

chief feature. The Chinese noties that at 10 AM To this it may be added that they are

they are very delicate, and die of cold found almost entirely in the tropical when autumn sot in, unless protected. regions. Two species are known in this It is probable that local migration" district, the first being, after Copsychus takes place largely among these little saularia mentioned above, the most popu-birds-individual birds travel south in HAIR DRESSING SALOON, lar cago-hird of the "Jess wealthy Can autumn but their places are taken by tonga bird-fanciers.

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nama Wask Moi (" pencilled eye-brow"),trict, the birds are not the same from No. 51, WELLINGTON STREET, so called from its conspicuous grey, cy month to month. A similar process takes lids. This bird is the size of a thrush, place in spring, so that the bird-popila- with a yellow book; the body tints are

dull green or brown, the legs black (ortion of any given district appears not to Graduated in America at the Moler in some ses red). It is found in both change, but in reality changes constantly.

THE SLOW PECKERE.

Hongkong and the New Territory, and These littlo, birds hover about areng is caught in large numbers, and kopt for the tops of trees, hunting for insecta its song, which is very inelodious. This They can easily be mistaken for large hint is very pugnacious, and is said both, so lightly do they hover amid the

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NOTICE.

but by Kershaw Dryonastes'p. The bird uniformaly dark-brown with a black patch round its eyes. I have often heard. 1 in Hongkrag and Content the nate is not very laughterlike. The bird soms to prefer bushes neer bucan hebitations: THE under-asmed Firm of TAILORS the clumps of trous which an often lend

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This concludes the Perching Birds.

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