36 Mr. n. Seebohm on Messrs. Blakiston and Pi'yer's 



The genus Cettia of Bonaparte (1838), of which C. sericea 

 is the type, appears to me to be capable of embracing a small 

 group of about a dozen species distinguished by having only 

 ten tail-feathers. They have moderately slender Ijills with 

 feeble rictal bristles, very rounded wings, the first primary 

 being more than half the length of the second, and a mode- 

 rately rounded tail, the outside feathers being generally three 

 fourths the length of the longest. The tarsus and feet are 

 robust, the former indistinctly scutellated in front. This 

 genus might contain Cettia sericea, Bon., C. canturiens 

 (Swinh.), C. cantans (T. & S.), C. minuta (Swiuh.), C. rode- 

 ricana (Newt.), C. brunneifrons (Hodgs.), C. major (Hodgs.), 

 C. flavolivacea (Hodgs.), C. paliidipes (Blanf.), C. assimilis 

 (Gray), C.fortipes (Hodgs.), and C. pallida (Brooks); but I 

 think that the three latter names will be found to be 

 synonyms, C. fortipes (Hodgs.) being the oldest. All the 

 birds in this genus are more or less remarkable for iiaviug 

 the feathers of the rump much developed. 



224. Arundinax blakistoni, T. *i 



228. LOCUSTELLA SUBCERTHIOLA, Swiull. J 



I think there can be no doubt that the former of these 

 birds is the young in first winter plumage, and the latter the 

 adult of Locustella ochotensis , Middendorf. 



225. Phyllopneuste coronata, T. & S. 



226. Phyllopneuste xanthodryas, Swinh. 



In Mr. Dresser^s and Lord Tweeddale^s collections are skins 

 of Phylloscopus borealis (Blasius) from Japan. In the British 

 Museum is a skin of P. xanthodryas, Switih., obtained by 

 Capt. St. John at Hakodate ; and in Lord Tweeddale's col- 

 lection is a skin of P. tenellipes, Swinhoe, labelled " Hako- 

 date, 5th May, 1865.'' Skins of P. coronatus, T. & S., from 

 Japan are not uncommon in collections. 



229. Locustella, sp. inc. 



This will probably prove to be Locustella hendersoni 

 (Cassin) , originally described from a skin obtained at Hako- 

 date. From the description of this bird it appears to be the 

 same as Locustella minuta, Swiuhoe, an intermediate form 



