258 Mr. H. J. Elwes on the Genus Henicurus. 



bird, which frequents the borders of torrents in the most inac- 

 cessible ravines of the wooded mountains." 



Miiller says, " I have only met with it hitherto near some of 

 the small rivulets of the shore-mountains at the base of Boengoes 

 (Sumatra), It is there found jumping on dry-lying rolling 

 stones, screaming vociferously, just as Boie mentions is the 

 habit of H. coronatus and velatus." 



'6. Henicurus leschenaulti. 



Turdus leschenaulti, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xx. p. 269 

 (1818) ; Gal. des Oiseaux, pi. 145. 



Enicurus coronatus, Temm. PI. Col. 113. 



Motacilla speciosa, Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 155 ; Zool. 

 Res. in Java, 1824 ; Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 319. 



Enicurus leschenaulti. Gray, Gen. Birds, i., p. 204; Horsf. & 

 Moore, Cat. Birds in Mus. E. 1. Comp. vol. i. p. 345 ; Swinhoe, 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 276. 



Henicurus speciosus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 265 ; et 1862, 

 pp. 261, 264. 



Henicurus sinensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 665 ; Swinhoe, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 404, and P. Z. S. 1871, p. 365. 



H. chinensis, Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. xviii. 



Hub. Java {Horsfield) ; Moupin [David) ; China, Fokien 

 prov. (Swinhoe). 



Crown, rump, belly, tail-coverts and wing-bar white, the rest 

 black ; the white feathers of the head more or less elongated, 

 but not forming a crest. 



Length 10 inches; wing4|^; tail5|; beak from gapel; tar- 

 sus I5. 



Mr. Gould has described specimens of this bird from China as 

 H. sinensis ; but after comparing a number of specimens from 

 Java and China, I am unable to see that the character upon 

 which Mr. Gould relies (namely the smaller frontal patch) is 

 sufficient to rank the Chinese bird as a good species ; and Mr. 

 Swinhoe, though he admitted the distinctness of the species in 

 his list of Chinese birds (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 365), wrote as follows 

 in 'The Ibis' (1867, p. 404) :— 



" I see that Mr. Gould has made a new species of the Chinese 



