Mr. 0. Salviu on the Genus Cinclus. 119 



pallasi, Teinm., Man. tVOru. i. p. 177^ and iii. p. 107; Temm. 

 & Schl., Faun. Jap. p. 68, tab. xxxi. b ; Von Schreuck, Amur- 

 land, p. 331 ; Radde, S. Ost. Sib. p. 220; Gatke, J. f. O. 1856, 

 p. 71, and Blasius, Ibis, 1862, p. 66 (Heligoland) ; Blakiston, 

 Ibis, 1862, p. 320; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, pp. 277, 331; Gould, 



B. As. pi., and B. Eur. pi. 85. 



C. obscure brunneus, unicolor : ventre medio nigricantiore, dorso 



et uropygio nigro squamatis : alis et cauda fusco-nigris : 

 long, tota 8"0, ala3 -I'O, caudse 2'5, tarsi 1*25, i-ostri a rictu 

 11. 



Hab. Baikal to Kamschatka {Pallas) ; Amoorland {v. Schrenck) ; 

 S.E. Siberia [Radde] ; Japan [Blakiston et al.). 



Mas. J. Gould (Nagasaki). 



There can be little doubt that Temminck's conjecture, that 

 the specimen he originally described came from the Crimea, 

 was erroneous, and that the true habitat of this species is Japan, 

 Amoorland, and adjacent parts. It still has a claim to a place 

 in the European fauna, from the fact of a specimen having been 

 killed in Heligoland (Giitke, J. f. O. 1856, p. 71). The three 

 races of this dark-coloured group are very similar, but yet di- 

 stinguishable by apparently constant characters ; they all occupy 

 distinct isolated districts, and hence must be separated. The syno- 

 nymy of this species as given by Von Schrenck is entirely wrong. 



• 8. Cinclus marila. 



Cinclus marila, Swinhoe, J. R. As. Soc. (Shanghai), 1859 ; 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 187. C. pallasi, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 272; 

 Gould, B. As. (sub C. pallasi). 



C. pallasi vero similis, sed paulo pallidior : subtus omnino fuligi- 

 noso-brunneus et supra plumarum marginibus nigris, dorsi 

 et uropygii absentibus. 



Juv. fusco-niger, supra nigro squamato : subtus gula et abdomine 

 albo, pectore badio, variegatis. 

 Hab. Formosa [Swinhoe). 



Mr. Swinhoe has, I think, been somewhat hasty in uniting 

 the Formosan bird he described under this name with C. pallasi 

 of Japan, as it does not appear he ever compared specimens from 

 the two localities. In the absence of the black edgings of the 

 feathers of the back, it more nearly resembles C. asiaticus, but 



