146 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 



the underparts than a specimen ( ? , 20th February) I have 

 from Shanghai; but one from Amoy (October) is fully as 

 much so. 



He sends from the Yokohama market, procured in January, 

 a GaU'mago solitaria (Hodgs.), with the note " Another male, 

 12| X 6." This is much darker and more distinctly banded 

 than a male I procured at Shanghai on the 26tli February, 

 1873 ; and at first I was half inclined to admit the Japanese 

 bird as distinct. But I have a second specimen from Shang- 

 hai, dated Jan. 3rd, 1874, which comes very close to the Ja- 

 panese, and seems to show that the two are inseparable. 



From Yokohama a male Rhynch(ea bengalensis (L.) is sent. 



145. NUMENIUS PHiEOPUS, L. 



A Hakodadi male of this Curlew, shot on the 24th May, 

 1876, with the note of size "^"^ 17g x Q." This seems to be of 

 the typical European form, and shows that all our China birds, 

 even those procured at Shanghai, are of the allied form N. 

 uropygialis, Gould. 



An immature Nycticorax griseus from Yeddo, is included; 

 and Mr. Blakiston notes that he has also an adult male and 

 female ; but the locality of the latter not being stated, I do 

 not number the species. 



146. CoLYMBus ADAMsi, G. E,. Gray. 



An immature male of this species bears the date January, 

 with the note of measurement, "29| X 13.''^ The bill is partly 

 yellow and partly black. It is otherwise undistinguishable from 

 C. glacialis at the same stage. Specimens have been received 

 from the North Atlantic with similar bills, and the best authori- 

 ties are now, I believe, disposed to consider the Great Northern 

 Divers of the Atlantic and Pacific to belong to one species. 

 Blakiston wrongly identifies his specimen with C. arcticus, L. 



147. Anser albifrons. 



This is sent as A. erythropus, L. (625 of my " List of the 

 Birds of China," P. Z. S. 1871, p. 416) ; and a note adds that 

 he has another female " 2,\\x 14|." 



148. Anas boschas, L. 



A male, killed in March, from Hakodadi, and a female 



