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coverts with a jinrplish gloss." The bill is sometimes wider at base, sometimes 

 as in Itiflian specimens. 



(It may be emphasised that Begbic's description appeared first in 1834, iu 

 his book The Malayan Peninsula, and not in the Annals and Magazine of Xat. 

 Hint. 1840, as qnoted in the Cafaloi/i/f of Birih.) 



3. Dicaeum cruentata coccinea (Scop). 



Scopoli's name is based on Sonnerat's " Grimpereau i\ dos ronge de la Chine," 

 from China. This form has the wing-coverts again steel-blue, without au}- purple 

 tinge, rather more greenish than purplish ; but it diflfers from the Indian form in 

 having a larger bill and longer wings, and the females have the upperside more 

 tinged with rusty orange. — South China and Hainan. 



Possibly another subdivision can be made one day, as the Hainan examples 

 appear to have a slightly shorter wing on an average ; but some of them are fully 

 as large as others from China (Kwantuug, etc.). 



Although there cannot be any doubt that these three forms are representing 

 each other geographically, this is apparently not the case with D. cruentatum igtiita 

 and D. sumatranum, as both occur in East-Sumatra. 



242. Cinnyris rhizophorae (Swinh.). 



Arachnechthra rhiznphorae Swinhoe, Anji. and Mag. N. H. (4) iv. p. 436 (Hainan). 

 Chmyris rhizophorae Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 468. 



3 ;?<?, 1 ? Kinngchau, February 1902 (No. 14). 

 2 <J<J, 1 ? Hoihow, March 1902 (No. 14). 



5 (Jc?, 2 ? ? Secha, April— May 1902 (No. 14). 



243. Aethopyg'a christiuae christinae Swinh. 



Aethopi/ga christiuae Swinhoe, Ann. and May. iV. //. (4) iv. p. 436 (1869) (Shuy-wei-3ze, Hainan). 

 Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 468. 



cJ cJ, 3 ? ? No-Tai, September 1902 (No. 86). 



4 (J (J Lei Muiiuon, January 1903 (No. 80). 

 2 <?(J Namro, March 1903 (No. SO). 



S, ? Wnpashi, April 1904 (No. 86). 



Aelhopyga laiouchii Slater, from South China, is evidently a subspecies of 

 christinae, diS'ering by a greenish yellow, not black back, a somewhat different green 

 of the crown, and slightly brighter reddish throat. The type, now in the Tring 

 Museum, is from Chiong Po, province of Swatow. 



244. Anthus cervina (Pall,). 



Mntacilla Cervina Pallas, Zour/r. Rnx^o-Asiat. i. p. .'Jll (18'-'7) " O.E. in Siberia tantum maxima 

 orientali, circa Coryma fl. itemque in Camtscliatca et ins. vers. Americam sitia frequeus 

 est.") 



Anilna cerriniis Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 4i;«. 



6 Hoihow, April 1902, No. 4. 



9 (J? Kinngchau, February— March 1902. 



5 Wnpashi, April 1904. 

 (Winter visitor.) 



