154 Mr. R. Swiuhoc on Birds from Hakodadi. 



travels in that country, and notes its resemblance to L. ocho- 

 tensis, from wliichj he observes, it diflfers chiefly in wanting 

 the golden of the underparts. I must not, however, blame 

 the Russian ornithologists for misnaming this bird, as I was 

 myself guilty of a similar mistake. With specimens before 

 one the mistake could never occiir ; for the present bird is 

 large and pale. I will describe it as the 



LOCUSTELLA SUBCERTIIIOLA, Sp. nOV. 



Form robust ; in colour Calamoherpine, but in respect of 

 wings, tail, and legs Locustelline ; wing with the 1st quill 

 spurious, 2nd notched on its inner web within half an inch of 

 its tip, 3rd the longest; tail much graduated, tipped with 

 whitish. 



Length about 6 inches; wdng 2'7; tail 2"3, outer feather 

 •68 shorter than centrals. 



Above olive-grey, washed with yellowish brown on the back 

 and margins to feathers of wings, more richly on the rump 

 and margins of tail-feathers. Feathers of the crown and back 

 obscurely centred with brown. Wings brown, the 1st quill 

 white on its outer web for the greater part of its length ; tail 

 yellower, with faint bars. Throat, belly, and axillaries nearly 

 white; sides of neck, breast, flanks, tibials, and under tail- 

 coverts ochreous olive-grey, deeper on the last and on the 

 sides of the body beneath the wings. Bill of specimen brown 

 on upper mandible, yellowish on lower; legs of ditto light 

 yellowish brown. 



I have not yet met this species in China ; and it is possible 

 it may migrate through Hakodadi to Kamtschatka, more to 

 the eastward, coming probably from the Philippines. 



10. Black-eyebrowed Reed-Wren. Calamodyta maackii, 

 V. Schrenck. 



Blakiston^s collection contains a veritable specimen of my 

 C bistrigiceps (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 353), which confirms my 

 suspicions that my bird is no other than Von Schrenck's 

 Salicaria [Calamodyta) maackii (Amui'land, i. p. 370, pi. xii. 

 fig. 4-6) . I have only procured it at Amoy ; but Pere David 

 has it from PokiDsr. 



