Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 16 
given my reasons in the last number of ‘ The Ibis’ for placing 
this species in that genus. In the Museum at St. Petersburg 
are two very beautiful skins of adult birds of this species from 
the Ussuri river. Young birds have been obtained by Dy- 
boffsky in Daouria, and have been described by Elliot as C. 
subflavescens from the same locality. Swinhoe described the 
adult passing through China on migration, as C. fumigata, 
and also recorded it from Japan. Wallace described A. 
insularis from Gilolo and Morty; and Gray described his A. 
fasciolatus from skins collected by Wallace in Batchian, Gi- 
lolo, and Morty. I think I may fairly claim that all the 
known facts of the geographical distribution of these two 
birds are in favour of my theory that they are young and 
adult of one species. 
ACCENTOR MONTANELLUS (Pall.). 
I first noticed this bird on the 19th of June, a quiet skulk- 
ing bird, rarely seen on the wing, and principally frequenting 
the willows near the banks of the Yen-e-say’. Four days 
afterwards I had a long chase on the Koo-ray’-i-ka side of 
the river after a bird whose song J had frequently heard before. 
It was a short unpretentious song, something like that of our 
Hedge-Sparrow. ‘The bird was generally on the top of a high 
tree, where it sang its short song, and went onto another tree. 
At last I succeeded in shooting it from the top of a pine, and 
was astonished to find it the Mountain-Accentor. I did not 
meet with it again until I reached lat. 704°, where I found it 
breeding in the island of Mah’-la Brek’-off-sky. Here it was 
skulking among the willows, like a Grasshopper-Warbler. 
The nest was within a foot of the ground ; but I was so worried 
with mosquitoes that I neglected to note the materials of 
which it was composed. The eggs are blue, like those of our 
Hedge-Sparrow. I did not meet with it further north. 
Hrrvunpo. rustica, Linn. 
On the 16th of May a solitary Barn-Swallow appeared. I 
did not see another until we were within a hundred miles of 
Yen-e-saisk’ on the return journey. At that town they were 
common enough. 
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