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and underparts, the superciliary streak, distinctness of lower 

 wing-bar, combined with the total absence of the upper one, 

 " pale greenish plumbeous " legs (which I had marked down 

 as olive-grey), as in the relative proportions of the primaries, 

 it fully agrees with the description given by Mr. Seebohm 

 of P. viridanus. 



Judging from what is said in the same paper as regards 

 P. plumbeitarsus , it appears that this species resembles 

 P. viridanus very closely indeed ; but the " lead-colour " of 

 the legs, together with the " generally distinct " upper wing- 

 bar of the former, induced me to decide in favour of P. viri- 

 danus as a name for my bird. Perhaps there may exist a 

 sufficient difference in the shape of wing between these 

 closely allied species, although in both of them the second 

 and seventh primaries are of nearly the same length as 

 are the third, fourth, and fifth ; still, with this seeming 

 sameness, the distance from the tip of the bastard primary 

 to that of the three longest primaries, and from those 

 again to the longest tertiary, may differ so essentially as, 

 when placing both species side by side, to make their dis- 

 similarity apparent at a glance. Unfortunately I am not 

 in possession of materials to decide this question. 



As perhaps some members of the ornithological brother- 

 hood may be rather surprised at the statement that this small 

 island should be visited by two different species on the same 

 day, both belonging to the far east of Asia, I beg to state 

 that, for instance, a Phylloscojms nitidus was also shot by 

 my son whilst searching for a P. superciliosus seen here 

 the same day, that another time Turdus varius was captured 

 the same day with two P. superciliosus, and again this latter 

 Willow- Warbler together with an Emberiza pusilla, as also 

 with an E. rustica. On the 1st of October, 1869, examples 

 of Turdus varius, P. superciliosus, E. pusilla, Anthus cervinus, 

 together with three of Muscicapa parva, were either seen or 

 shot here, followed the next day by a Turdus swainsoni, which 

 latter bird, under the circumstances, decidedly made its 

 journey hither across Asia. 



Of more south-eastern species, I have obtained here on the 



