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263. White-winged Black Tern. {Sterna leucoptera.) 

 Common in April and May at Corfu. 



264. Whiskered Tern. [Sterna leucopareia.) 



Common in winter at Eutrinto; breeds in tlie marshes of 

 Durazzo. 



265. Cinereous Shearwater. [Pvffinus cinereus.) 

 Occasionally seen in the channel of Corfu ; more common 



further to the north, on the coasts of Albania and Dalmatia. 



266. Stormy Petrel. [Thalassidroma pelagica.) 



I only once saw this species in the Ionian Sea ; this was near 

 Pagania in December 1857. 



XLV. — Further Corrections and Additions to the " Ornithology 

 of Amoy" with some Hemarks on the Birds of Formosa. By 

 Robert Swinhoe^ of H. M. Consular Service*. 

 A FEW necessary corrections having again suggested themselves 

 on reperusing my article on the " Ornithology of Amoy," as 

 printed in the 5th Number of ' The Ibis/ I hasten to communi- 

 cate them to you, that they may appear before the public as soon 

 as possible. 



Arundinax canturians, sp. 32, and A. miniatus (nee minutus), 

 sp. 33, should be again compared with Salicaria cantans and 

 S. cantillans of the * Fauna Japonica ' before they can be con- 

 sidered as good species. They belong more correctly, I think, to 

 the genus Lusciniopsis. 



Thamnohia niveiventris, mihi, sp. 44, is no Thamnohia at all. 

 I cannot understand how I came to be so mistaken. The de- 

 scription given is that of a female bird, which Mr. Blyth considers 

 to be referable to Erythrosterna leucura (Gmel.) of Bengal. All 

 the specimens we procured were females and immature birds until 

 lately, when M. Schlegel shot a male. The extent of red on the 

 lower parts of this individual proves the species to he Erythrosterna 

 mugimaki of the ' Fauna Japonica ' rather than the Indian bird. 

 Motacilla lugens (v. lugubris), mentioned in the ' Fauna Ja- 

 ponica,^ has also been shot here after stormy weather, and should 

 be inserted after M. luzoniensis. 



* Communicated in a letter from Mr. Swinhoe to the Editor. 



