CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORNIS OF SAOIIALIN. 17 



lô. Bud) f tes flaviis faivanus (Swinhoe). 



Mouth of Susiiya Eiver : Id^, May 13 ; Ic/', May 15 ; GcT^c/, 

 May 16; Id", iNfay 17; 4c/'ö^, May 19 ; Sc^c^, May 23. 



Soloviyofka: 1ö^, May 16. 



Vladimirofka : Ic/, June 10. 



Trctiya Padj : 1 specimen (unsexed), June 16 ; 1ö^, June 

 20; 2ö^ö^, 2??, June 30; 3(/ö^, July 7. 



Chipesani: Id',!'^, July 25; Ic/'A?, July 28; lo^, Auçv. 

 I; 1?, Aug. 2; 1ö=^, Aug. 4; 1?, Aug. 6. Birds in 

 winter plumage and young birds : 1 specimen (un- 

 sexed) July 27; 1?, Aug. 6; 1ö^,1?, Aug. 8; 3??, 

 Aug. 11; 1?, Aug. 12; I?, Aug. 14; Ic/', Sept. 1; 

 Ic/', Sept. 3. 



The birds collected in the Spring and in the early Summer 

 are greener than those collected later, in which the plumage is 

 more worn, duller and somewhat brownish coloured. 



The young birds are olive-brown above, tinged witli olive- 

 yellow on back, becoming olive-green towards the lower back 

 and upper-tail-coverts. The eyebrow stripe is broad and buffy 

 "svhite. Lores and ear-coverts dusky brown. Throat, foreneck 

 and chest buffy white, the latter with dusky spots ; belly and 

 undor-tail-coverts white with a clear yellow tinge. Tail-feathers 

 with narrow yellow edgings, the central ones for the rest black ; 

 the ultimate and penultimate ones white with a longitudinal black 

 mark on the inner web, which mark is larger on the latter. 



Two males in winter plumage (Sept. 1 and Sept. 3) are 

 somewhat different even inier se. One of them is brownish gray 



