Birds from Central China. 263 



215. Merula fuscata. 



Skins dated from 8th November to 8th April. No doubt 

 a winter visitor from the tundras of Eastern Siberia. 



218. Merula pallida. 



225. Merula mandarina. 



226. Geocichla varia. 

 LushaUj 4th April. 



232. Monttcola cyanus-solitarius. 



Poyang Lake, 5th December. A female of one of these 

 two forms_, or, more probably, of an intermediate form. 



233. Myiophonbus CjEruleus. 

 Lushan, 8th April. 



235. CiNCLUS PALLAST. 



Kiukiang, August. 



242. Pycnonotus sinensis. 



Kiukiang, January, July, and November. 



244. Pycnonotus xanthorrhous. 

 Sin Fung, January. 



247. Spizixus semitorques. 

 Kiukiang, 2nd February. 



254 «. POMATORHINUS STYANI, UOV. Sp. 



Lushan, 4th April and 8th November^ The genus Poma- 

 torhinus was monographed by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay (Ibis, 

 1878, pp. 129-145) and afterwards by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vii. pp. 408-432), and P. ruficollis has 

 been specially investigated by Col. Godwin-Austen (Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1876, p. 75) and by FAbbe David and Mons. 

 Oustalet (Ois. de la Chine, p. 186) ; nevertheless it appears 

 to me that three distinct species are confused together 

 under this name by all the writers I have named. Mr. 

 Sharpe confesses that he accepted the verdict of these 

 distinguished authorities against the validity of Swinlioe's 

 species without trying the case himself; but after comparing 



