Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Hongkong, ^c. 23 



"The Spanish name should be spelt 'Curricinga/ nee Curri- 

 cunga. 



" I was wrong in calling it ' the road to Guaqua Pichincha '; it 

 is merely the track or tracks made by the ' snow-carriers/ who 

 bring down that article daily, and supply the inhabitants of 

 Quito with the luxuiy they please to name ' ice.' It requires con- 

 siderable experience to follow these paths, in safety, through the 

 'paja ' or long grass with which the Paramo is clothed. 



"All that I remember, beyond what is already published in 

 the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, is having noticed for 

 the first time a few pairs walking in the grass, amongst the cattle, 

 on the table-lands to the south of Quito, when en route for 

 Babahoyo in June 1859." 



There appear to be, therefore, three nearly allied species of 

 Milvago, forming the subsection Phalcobcenus, and occupying 

 different areas in South America. 



1. M. CARUNCULATUS. Pectore uigro, ttlbo guttato. Exmont. 

 Novse Granadse et reipubl. Equatorialis. 



2. M. MEGALOPTERUS [Aquilci megalopteru, Meyen : Phal- 

 cobcenus montanus, Lafr. et d'Orb.). Pectore nigro, imrnaculato. 

 Ex mont. Peruvise et Bolivise. 



3. M. ALBOGULARis, Gould (Darw. Zool. Beagle, pi. 1. p. 18). 

 Gutture et pectore albis. Ex Patagonia. 



III. — Notes on the Ornithology of Hongkong, Macao, and Canton, 

 made during the latter end of February, March, April, and the 

 beginning of May, 1860. By Bobert Swinhoe, of H. B. M.^s 

 Consular Service. 



Hongkong is set down as distant 280 miles by sea from Amoy, 

 and, being in latitude 22° 15', falls well within the tropics. We 

 ought therefore naturally to expect more interesting feathered 

 forms than appear in the subjoined list ; yet, if you exclude the 

 Micronisus gabar (which may also occasionally be found at 

 Amoy) and the large Ketvpa, no bird came within my observation 

 about Hongkong and its neighbouring main which does not 

 occur somewhere in the neighbourhood of Amoy. 



At Macao I fell in with two species I had not seen before ; 



