158 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 



the full plumage of cither sex of this species. None of ray 

 many females favour the idea of the dress of this sex develop- 

 ing eventually into that of the male, though this may occa- 

 sionally happen, as with many species of birds. The ordinary 

 plumage of the feuiale is as described above. There is also 

 nothing in my series of skins (on which the aforesaid gentle- 

 men based their remarks) to convince me that the male loses 

 with age the red of the miderparts. I would rather believe, 

 with Mr. Blyth, that the South-China bird is intermediate, 

 like the Burmese bird {M. affinis), and is inconstant as to 

 the amount of the red on the underparts. In its upper 

 plumage the bfue is duller than in the Hakodadi bird, as 1 

 have already stated. The Formosan bird is nearly as dull in 

 its blue as the Amoy specimens ; but the underparts are nearly 

 always red throughout. I would preserve the name M. affinis 

 for the Chinese bird, and let the Formosan form rank as an 

 outlier of the true insular M. solitarius, of which I take the 

 Japanese form to be a typical illustration. 



22. Browx-eared Bulbul. Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temm.) . 

 A female of February. To compare with this I have an 



unsexed bird from Nagasaki (South Japan). The Hakodadi 

 specimen is larger, has a shorter bill, longer vrings, and larger 

 tail, but does not differ in coloration. The describer of this 

 species found affinity for it in the American Mocking Thrushes; 

 but there can be now no doubt that it has its true allies in 

 the Asiatic Tree-Bulbuls {Hypsipetes) , a conspecies having 

 turned up lately at Ningpo, in China. 



23. Waxwing. Ampelis garrula, L. 



Two specimens, date and sex unmarked. One is smaller 

 than the other, has six wax tips, and a narrow tail-band, and 

 answers to the figure in YarrelFs ' British Birds,^ p. 413. 

 The other is a much finer bird, has seven large wax tips, a 

 broad golden tail-tip, and white margins to the end of the 

 inner web of each primary quill, in addition to the terminal 

 edge of the outer web. This last, in the three main outer 

 feathers, is white, in the rest that succeed a fine golden. This 

 seems to be the common species in Japan as in China. 



