444 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Northern Japan. 



specimen agrees with another that I procured from Araoy during 

 its winter migration, and both these correspond entirely with the 

 description and excellent figure in Middendorff^s work. I think 

 a reference to the plate in the ' Sibirische Reise ' will convince 

 Mr. Cassin of the truth of my assertion ; but I cannot well 

 understand what induced that able ornithologist to place this and 

 the following form (two such unmistakable Locustellce) in the 

 genus Lusciniopsis, which Prince Bonaparte proposed for the 

 reception of that delicate-footed bird the Pseudoluscinia savii, 

 or Savi's Warbler. 



No. 14, Lusciniopsis hendersonii, appears to answer well to my 

 Locustella macropus (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 93), that being probably 

 the bird noted from Amoorland by von Schrenck as the Euro- 

 pean Locustella, of which it doubtless is the closest Eastern re- 

 presentative. If really the same (and I strongly suspect them 

 to be so), my name must sink into a synonym, and the species 

 stand as Locustella hendersonii. 



No. 19, Sitta sibirica, Pallas. 



Sitta roseilia, Bp., noted by Captain Blakiston in his first list 

 (p. 322), is here quoted as S. sibirica, from Pallas's name Sitta 

 europcea, var. sibirica. Mr. Cassin makes the same remark as 

 Captain Blakiston does in his second paper, on the identity of 

 this form with the S. uralensis, Licht. 



No. 20, Squatarola helvetica, L., is included in Cassin's list, as 

 also is Charadrius morinellus, L. The former is well known from 

 Eastern Asia ; but surely the latter must refer to the allied form 

 C. mongolicus, Pall., though Cassin appears rather positive as to 

 the identity. 



No. 23, Scolopax solitaria, Hodgs. 



The Snipes have been very little studied, and are not at all 



well known. The Great Snipe, procured by Captain Blakiston 



from Hakodadi, was the Australian large species Gallinago aus- 



tralis (Lath.), and certainly not G. solitaria, Hodgs., of India. 



, , „ , „ , . ... .„ f These would all be natu- 



JNo. 24, lotanus orevipes, Vieill. „ , 



TVT c^^ m . 7 -/• X I'ally expected to occur, as 



J\ o. 25, 1 otanus glottis, L. J i , , ■ p i 



T.r nr- m ■ /^ 1 1 A they have also been found 



INo. 2d, irinqa maana, Ijould. i , /^, • 



TVT ^D rn ■ ■ T ■ 1 on the Chniese coast by 



i\o. 2o, I rrnga rmnuta, Lemtr. ! ,,.1,1 



•^ V myself and others. 



