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71. Phyllopneuste coronata. 

 Ficedula coronata, 'Fauna Japonica/ t. 18. 



Summers in North China, the Amoor, and Japan; and winters 

 in South China, at which season a few visit Formosa. 



72. Phyllopneuste sylvicultrix. 

 Phylloscopus sylvicultrix, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 53. 



A summer visitant to South China, passing in large numbers 

 through Amoy in its autumnal migrations south-eastwards, 

 probably to the Philippines. In these passages it touches at 

 South-west Formosa ; and at Taiwanfoo, for a few days in 

 October, I found them abundant. I neither saw them before 

 nor afterwards ; nor did I meet with them at Tamsuy. I have 

 the following note on a specimen shot at Taiwanfoo, 10th October, 

 1862:— "Length 4^ in.; vi'ui^2^', tad 1^^. Bill light olive- 

 black, with edges and basal half of lower mandible yellowish. 

 Inside of mouth and rictus bright yellow. Eyelid black ; iris 

 dark brown. Legs and claws olive-brown, somewhat washed 

 with olive-yellow, especially on joints.^^ 



73. REauLOiDES superciliosus (Gmel.). 

 Regulus modestus, Gould. 



Reguloides proregulus of Blyth, and of my former lists. 



I always understood this species, which is identical with Mr. 

 Gould's Dalmatian Gold-crest, to be the Mutacilla proregulus of 

 Pallas, until the other day, at Leyden, Prof. Schlegel told me 

 that he thought Pallas's description applied rather to the R. 

 chloronotus, Hodgs.; and on carefully perusing the 'Zoograph. 

 Rosso- Asiat.' (p. 499) I certainly find this to be the case. Pallas 

 there tells you that he observed his bird in the beginning of 

 May, in Daiiria; and in the description that follows distinctly 

 says, " Dorsum cinereo-flavum vel virescens, ut et tectrices 

 caudse; sed zona lata uropygii albido-flava." (Mark the words 

 in italics.) This whitish-yellow rump-band never occurs in the 

 R. modestus, but always in the R. chloronotus, Hodgs. I found 

 both species common at Peking in summer, and they doubtless 

 also pass that season in Siberia. In winter both species spread 

 down the coast of China, and away even to the plains of India. 

 The R. modestus is generally met with singly ; the R. chloronotus 



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