358 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Amoy (China). 



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Sp. 57. For ' Turdus advena/ mentioned here, read * Turdiis 

 daulias/ to which species the name refers. 



Of the other Thrushes alluded to, I have succeeded in identify- 

 ing Turdus {Merula) cardis of the ' Fauna Japonica.' This bird 

 occurs here abundantly, in both its thrush-like and blackbird-like 

 plumages, with the intermediate grades, and presents a happy 

 link between the two subdivisions of the genus Turdus. 



Sp. 61, Garrulax rugillatus, nobis, is undoubtedly Gatrulax 

 perspicillatus (Gmelin). 



We have since shot in the island G. canorus (Latham), the 

 "Chinese Song Thrush," or Hwa-mei {" pictured eyebrow ''). 



Sp. 64, Pycnonotus hamorrhous, is " Le Gobe-mouche a tete 

 noire de la Chine " of Sonnerat ; Muscicapa atricapilla, Vieillot ; 

 but, unfortunately, there is another bird of the same genus (the 

 JEgithina atricapilla, Vieillot) from Ceylon bearing the same spe- 

 cific name : which has the priority ?* 



Sp. 87, Munia molucca. I find, from ' Shaw's Zoology,' that 

 this species is Munia minima (Lath.), M. molucca being synony- 

 mous with M. ruhro-nigra, 



Sp. 106, Coturnix chinensis. This is Coturnix dactylisonans. 

 C. chinensis is not found in this neighbourhood. 



Sp. 115. For Herodias asha substitute Butorides javanicus 

 (Horsf.), of which species several examples have been met with 

 lately. 



Sp. 120, Nycticorax manillensis, should be probably N. griseus. 

 N. manillensis, of which I saw an example the other day in a 

 private cabinet at Hong Kong, is a very different species. 



Since the above was written, the following additional species 

 have been met with at Amoy : — 



1. A LocusTELLA with rigid tibial tendons; probably L. rM- 

 bescens, Blyth ; certainly not L. rail. 



* The Ceylonese bird appears to have been termed jEgithina atricapilla 

 by Vieillot, in the 1st volume of the Nouv. Diet. d. Sciences Nat. (p. 7G); 

 the Chinese bird, Muscicapa atricapilla, in the 21st volume of the same 

 work (p. 489, and Enc. Meth. p. 822). The earliest synonym of the latter 

 which we can use seems to be chysorrhoides (Lafr.) {Hcematornis chrysor- 

 rhoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 3C7), and the species should probably 

 stand as Pycnonotus chrysorrhoides. — Ed. 



