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branches overhead to sway to and fro ; for such insects were found 

 in its stomach. 



Our Cypselus affinis is more strictly Blyth's Malayan C. sub- 

 furcattis; and the Querquedula multicolor \% the Anas falca7'ia, 

 Pallas. 



No. 8^ Micronisus badius, Gmelin, I have already informed you, 

 is, according to Blyth, Accipiter virgatus, Teniminck. 



No. 87, p. 358, Munia minima, Lath., I have received from 

 Mr. Blyth, ticketed Munia acuticauda, Hodgson, Burmah; and 

 another species was at the same time sent from Calcutta, bearing 

 a similar form, but with blacker breast and cheeks, named Munia 

 striata, Linn. Specimens in my present collection from Formosa 

 are identical with that procured at Burmah, though a specimen 

 from Shanghai appears to be different. 



Tchitrea caruleocepliala, Quoy et Gaim.? (No. 66 of my first 

 paper) proves to be Myiagra azurea, Bodd. ; and to the Flycatcher 

 list I must add another species, Stoparola melanops. Vigors. Both 

 these birds Mr. Blyth tells me are common in Bengal. Of the 

 former two females were procured here in the autumn of 1859, 

 and one female of the latter. We cannot therefore look upon 

 them but as rare stragglers to this island. 



No. 12. Circus, sp. ?, is closely affine to, if not identical with, 

 Circus uliginosus of America. There is a specimen of this species 

 in a cabinet at Hongkong procured from Manilla through 

 Mr. Cuming. 



Of the two Caprimulgid(s , one affine to C. jotaka of Japan is 

 described by Mr. Blyth as C. sicinhoei ; the other that gentleman 

 tells me is a very near ally of C. monticola of Asia. 



The rest of the doubtful species of Amoy I have sent you with 

 one or other of my late papers. 



There is one other bird that I jotted down without careful com- 

 parison, and that is the Cormorant that winters in this harbour. 

 I set it down in my list asPhalacrocorax carbo. Now I discover, on 

 close comparison of my specimens with the bird in the ' Fauna Ja- 

 ponica,'that our species is undoubtedly referable to P. filamentosus, 

 Schlegel, of Japan. But I see, in the ' Fauna Japonica,^ P. carbo 

 is also noted at Japan and at Kamtschatka, and Mr. Blyth tells 

 me it is found in India. I have therefore every reason to suppose 

 that it also favom-s this coast with its visits during winter. Can 



