92 Mr. R. Swinboe on the Ornithology of Northern China. 



The Siberian specimens in the British Museum, marked cyanura, 

 again differ from both in having a rufescent eye- streak, and in 

 having the throat and breast reddish buff-colour instead of white. 

 Ours will stand as true lanthia cyanura (Schleg.) of the ' Fauna 

 Japonica.' 



To the Robin- Warblers I can now add a South-China bird 

 lately procured from Peking, which I described in ' The Ibis,' 

 vol. iii. p. 263. My description, however, was from a bird not 

 fully matui'ed; I mean the Larvivora gracilis, Swinhoe. This 

 species much resembles L. cyanea of Northern India in form, 

 and a good deal in colouring j but its wings are shorter and its 

 bill longer. L. cyanea has the lower neck, breast, and flanks a 

 fine reddish buff, instead of pure white as in our species, — its chin 

 and two streaks proceeding from it only being white. It also has 

 a narrow white eye-streak, which is wanting in our species. As 

 I have before described only the immature bird, I will now add 

 a short note of the peculiar features of the adult male : — 



Larvivora gracilis, mihi. 

 Supra cyanea: subtus nivea : linea a victu colli latera utrinque 

 ad ulnam descendente nigra: remigibus fuscis : rostro 

 nigi"0 : cruribus pedibnsque pallide carueis. 



27. Ribbon-tailed Flycatcher. 



From the skins brought home by Mr. Fleming, this appears 

 to be Tchitrea incei, Gould, which differs from T. affinis, of 

 Malacca, in having a much smaller bill. 



30. Pied-tail Flycatcher. 



This is the Muscicapa leucura of Gmelin and the M. albicilla 

 of Pallas. Our skins of this bird agree with those from India ; 

 but I have not been able to compare them with specimens of 

 the Erythrosterna parva of Europe, as there are none of the latter 

 in the British Museum. 



To the Flycatchers I can now add 



Xanthopygia leucophrys, Blyth, of India. 



Strange that this species should occur in the north, and not 

 the ordinary X. narcissina of Japan. 



Niltava cyanomelaena (Schleg.), Muscicapa cyanomelana of the 

 Faun. Japon. 



