Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Oi-nithology of Amoy (China). 59 



comrades. Here is the description given by De Lafresnaye : — 

 "Cendre en dessus; lorums^ ailes et queue noirs; front, une 

 tache mediane alaire, pli de Paile, bord extreme des remiges 

 tertiaireSj la presque totailite de trois rectrices laterales et tout 

 le dessous de corps, blancs. Longueur totale 0™*193. Habite 

 rile de Lugon (Philippines).^' The female in all mine hdiS greyish- 

 brown wings ; the black of the lores extends over the beak ; and 

 four, instead of three, lateral rectrices have a good deal of white 

 on them. Length 8 ; wing 3'8 ; tail 4, the three outer feathers 

 being shorter than the rest, equally graduated, measuring H, 2, 

 and 2| respectively, the six central ones nearly equal ; expanse 

 10|, bill I, to gape 'B. Bill and feet black. 



The male has a broad white forehead and a black crown, which 

 gradually blends with the bluish grey of the back ; the wings 

 are also blacker ; and there is more grey on the sides of the 

 breast. In fact the plumage of the male has great affinity to 

 that of the wild Motacillce, and also forms a happy transition 

 from the grey Campephagte to the crocus-tinted Pericrocoti^. 



74. DiCRURUs MACROCERCUs (VicilL). 



A summer visitant, but by no means common at Amoy. 

 Remarkably common in S.W. Formosa, where several may be 

 seen sitting on nests in the same bamboo-tree. 



75. Lanius schach, Gm. 



A common resident. Has a great habit of shrieking. 



7Q. Lanius lucionensis, Linn. 



Identified by both Mr. Blyth and Mr. Stevenson. The former 

 observes : " This is decidedly the true L. lucionensis. Strick- 

 land (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1847, xix. p. 132) considers that 

 all the various allied races are only varieties of the same. My 

 notion is, that there are three or four cognate races, which may 

 breed together when circumstances permit of it, and so grade into 

 one another. Unquestionably a Malayan L. superciliosus is very 

 unlike L. lucionensis." 



This is a common visitant with us. 



* There seems to be no doubt of this bird being P. cinereus. It is 

 figured in Gould's ' Birds of Asia,' pt. ix. — Ed. 



