153 Mr. R. Swinhoc on Birds from Hakodadi. 



kindly consented to figure the species from North China on the 

 same plate (PI. VII. fig. 2). The characters of this arc its 

 small size, and white u^jper tail-coverts. The latter, which it 

 has in common with no other species, suffices to convince me 

 that our bird is not the C. cashmiriensis, Gould, which it re- 

 sembles in many respects. As was to be expected, ours proves 

 to be the Martin that visits Siberia in summer, and is minutely 

 described by Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 533) as Hirundo 

 layopoda, in the belief that, from the difference in structure of 

 its nest, the Siberian bird ought to be thoroughly compared 

 with the European. I named the Chinese bird C. whitelyi in 

 P. Z. S. 18G2, p. 320; but I have only to quote from Pallas's 

 description of the Daurian bird the following to show that it 

 is the same as ours ; — " Subtus avis tota nivei candoris ; sub- 

 caudales, itemque dorsum posticum, uropygium tectricesque 

 Cauda nivese, rhachibus plumarum tenuissime fuscis, in qui- 

 busdam vix conspicue/^ 



Mr. Fleming^s specimen from near Pekin (figured in the 

 plate) is the only one of this species from China that I have ever 

 handled ; and the only time I ever saw the bird alive was on the 

 8th April, 1869, when, on some hills near the river Yangtsze, 

 about 1000 miles up its course, a pair of whitc-rumped Martins 

 flew about over the heads of our party, in company with many 

 Daurian and a few Common Swallows. 



4. King of the Shrimps. Alcedo bengalensis, Gmel. 



A young male, with both mandibles of bill blackish and the 

 breast-feathers tipped with dull bluish green. 



5. European Nuthatch. Sitta europcea, L. 



The species with white underparts. A specimen shot in 

 March. 



6. Tree-creeper. Certhia familiaris , L. 



The pale race of Amoorland, with a large whitish spot on 

 each feather of the crown and back. A specimen shot in 

 February. 



7. Japanese Wren. Troglodytes fumigatus, Temm. Man. 

 d^Orn. vol. iii. p. 161. 



