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your April number of this year, I state (p. 155) that the 

 " Scaly-headed Grass-Wren " is not a Tribura, though I leave 

 it under that genus_, not knowing how to place it. 



I was on the point of proposing a genus for it in the P. Z. S., 

 and giving an illustration to show the peculiarity of its form ; 

 but on carefully looking over Jerdon^s ' Birds of India/ ii. 

 p. 161, I find it may well be included in Hodgson^s genus 

 Hoi'ornis. I therefore suggest that my Chinese species may 

 now stand as Horornis squameiceps. 



M. Taczanowski has written to me from Warsaw, under 

 date 9th Nov., that he has received from Ussuri an important 

 collection of birds, which contains many species that have not 

 been before received from that neighbourhood. Among the 

 varieties he enumerates " un petit oiseau que je n'ai pas pu 

 determiner, c'est un Sylvide semblable aux Troglodytes." 

 From this description I recognized at once our little Wren ; 

 and this it proved to be when the specimen reached me. It 

 is a male, shot on the 25th Sept. I have it from Canton, 

 Formosa, Hakodadi, and now from Mantcliuria, which, I think, 

 proves pretty well that it is a regular migrant species, coming 

 north in summer to breed. 



M. Taczanowski reports that the same collection contains : — 



"(1) Emberiza quinquelineata, David [an MS. name^my 

 E. tristrami, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 441] . 



" (3) Turdus pelios, Bp., male magnifique, different en plu- 

 sieurs details de la femelle precedente, mcntionnee par Cabanis 

 dans le Journal d'Ornithologie. 



" (3) Limonidromus indicus (Gm.) . 



" (4) Oroecetes gularis, Swinh. 



'^ (5) Eophona personata (Temm.), mais la femelle ressemble 

 completement au male, et non pas corame le dit Temminck 

 dans sa description. 



"(6) Cyanoptila cyanomelmia (Temm.)." 



I am yours, &c., 



Robert Swinhoe. 



