To the Editor of the "Norra-Catna Datty News."
Sin,—While agreeing with "Zadoc's" statement in your issue of the 11th instant, that a crow-pheasant is not a cuckoo, I cannot accept his statement that in "Kuangtung, the Chinese call the bird hue chi (LIK The common name for the bird throughout Kuangtung, including the islands round about Hongkong, is Kot kai (BR) indicating as the characters denote a "junglefowl." I have shot many of them in various parts of Kuangtung, at Kowloon and on the island of Samoon—where they are quite numerous; but I have yet to learn that there are two species of the bird. At least, not of the crow-pheasant as I know it.
The Cantonese steep the crow-pheasant in samshu the liquid of which is used as a medicine by women who suffer from an internal cold after child-birth.
Po kat (K%G) and not "hue chi" (which latter is the northern name) is the common turkey which the Cantonese know how to distinguish as well as we do.
I am, ete.,
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