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compared it witli skins in the East-India Company^s Mu- 

 seum, and came to tlie conclusion that it represented a second 

 species of Hodj^son's genus Tribura, of wliich the type is 

 Tribura luteiventris of Nepal. I consequently described it in 

 the ' Proceedings •* of the Zoological Society of that year as 

 Tribura squamiceps. On the 8th of May^ 1866, I received 

 among a lot of birdskins from Takore, Formosa^ a second 

 specimen of this species, whicb my hunters had procured in 

 the mountains in tlie interior of that district shortly after 

 my departure for Amoy. This skin was suflSciently perfect to 

 show that the bird had a short graduated tail^, and not a 

 long tail^ as Tribura. 



I never met with this species in China myself; but as I 

 was leaving Chefoo on the last occasion, I received from Mr. 

 Blakiston my third specimen, which he had procured at Ha- 

 kodadi, Northern Japan, in May 1873. This specimen had 

 nearly a complete tail (see Ibis, 1874, p. 155). 



M. Taczanowski, of Warsaw, under date 9th November, 

 1875, transmitted to me a fourth specimen of the same bird 

 from the Ussuri district. This is a male, shot on the 25th 

 of September. I have the species therefore from Canton, 

 Formosa, Hakodadi, and now from Manchuria, which, I think, 

 proves pretty well that it is a regular migrant, coming north 

 in summer to breed. 



Mr. W. E. Brooks, who is now at home, writes to me from 

 near Newcastle saying that he believes that he has an example 

 of this same species, wliich was procured in Tenasserim. Mr. 

 Brooks encloses me a good drawing of his specimen, which 

 confirms his identification. 



Mr. Brooks urges me to have a figure of this bird pub- 

 lished, and to assign to it the characters of a new genus, as 

 he considers that it does not belong to Tribura, Pnoepyga, 

 Horornis, or any other known genus, though it has certain 

 characters in common with them. I think, therefore, that 

 it would be as Avell to projiose for it the generic name Uro- 

 sphena, from its wedge-shaped tail, and to characterize it as 

 follows : — 



