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7Q. Urubitinga anthracina, sp. 263. 



Duenas, July, changing from immature to adult plumage. 



Fam. .COLUMBID^. 



77. Chamapelia passerina : sp. 313. 



I have found nests of this bird both on the ground and ele- 

 vated a few feet above it. 



78. ScARDAFELLA ixcA, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 85. 

 Duenas, July 19th, J . 



This is the first and only specimen I have met with of this 

 Ground-dove at Duenas. On the coast it is numerous, resembling 

 in its habits the common species of this district, Chamapelia 

 passerina. 



Fam. ARDEID.E. 



79. Butorides virescens, sp. 333. 



I have noticed two other species of Heron about the Lake of 

 Duenas, but this is the commonest. 



Fam. RALLID.E. 



80. Fulica americana (Gm.), sp. 361. 



A young bird in its first dress. The Coot of the Lake of 

 Duenas appears to be the F. americana, after all, as I have no- 

 ticed that the old bird has a spot of the colour of dried blood 

 above the white frontal plate. In the young bird the bill is 

 vermilion-red with a lighter spot next to the white point on the 

 upper mandible. Over the eye is blue, the colour of the eye-ball 

 evidently showing through. The legs are brown with a faint cast 

 of green. — 0. S. 



VI. — The Ornithology of Amoy (China). By Robert Swinhoe, 

 of H. M. Consular Service. 



As I am about to leave Amoy for a place further down the coast, 

 a short notice of the species of birds collected by me on this 

 island and its immediate vicinity during a five years' sojourn 

 would perhaps find an acceptable place in ' The Ibis.' 



The position of Amoy and its relative bearings to the main- 



