390 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Amoy Ornithology. 



not describe the known species of the Parrots, nor yet does any 

 book in my possession. I must therefore defer a comparison 

 of it until opportunity occur. Paleeornis rosa is the only au- 

 thentic species hitherto procured from China ; and, as far as my 

 knowledge goes, Canton is its most northern coast limit. 



Muscicapa mugimaki, tallying with the description in the 

 ' Fauna Japonica,' except that, instead of black on the back, it 

 is brownish-grey, and leaden on the rump. This may be the 

 winter change in this species, or perhaps a sign of immaturity. 

 If the latter, it destroys the identity of the M. mugimaki with 

 the so-called M. luteola of Middendorff, which I once thought 

 I had established (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 290). 



Motacilla, sp.?, in many respects agreeing with my grey- 

 backed M. ocularis, but with much black on the back, the black 

 on crown advanced close on the bill, and no black eye-streak. 

 It may be a cross between M. ocularis and M. luzoniensis. 



Eophona melanura. Two males with the ends of the primary 

 quills entirely white. I have obsex'ved this peculiarity in indi- 

 viduals of this species before. 



Totanus brevipes in the fully adult winter plumage, as figured 

 by Mitchell in the 'Genera of Birds,^ under the name of T. 

 fuliginosus. 



Dec. 10th. — Received a Pheasant shot at Chefro. It is the 

 ordinary Phasianus torquatus. 



Dec. 15th. — My Amoy hunter brought me two Cormorants, 

 both immature, but one with much more white on the under 

 parts. The latter was a juvenile of Phalacrocorax capiliatus 

 (Temm.), the former of P. corjnoranus, var. sinensis (Shaw). 

 The wings of both are of equal length, but the toes of the 

 former are longer, fleshier, and broader, and its tarse deeper. 

 Its bill is longer, and the feathers advance from the rictus down 

 the ramus of the lower mandible, and proceed halfway up the 

 intercrural membrane into a fine point. In P. sinensis the 

 facial feathers recede from the rictus, and advance again below 

 the lower mandible into a short angle on the gular membrane. 

 The face, skin, and pouch in this bird are brimstone-yellow, but 

 in the P. capiliatus orange-yellow. In the adult state the dis- 

 tinctions of the head are more decided, and especially so during 



