316 Mr. R. Swiuhoe on the Ornithulogy of Hainan. 



merely to note the peculiarity and pass on ; but more recently, 

 in my trip to Szechuen, I procured a male in full summer plu- 

 mage of evidently the same species. I give a note of its cha- 

 racters : — Length of wing 3'55 in., of tail 3"7, of tarsus 'QS. 

 General colour the same as in M.felix, Its main difference 

 lies in the black being more advanced towards the forehead in 

 line with the front corner of the eye, then stretching back, leaving 

 a white eyebrow, and advancing at a sharp angle over the ear- 

 coverts to the rictus of the bill — an intervening border between 

 it and the eye, and the throat, remaining white. The face is 

 marked much as in the second figure of the Grey-backed M. 

 personata, in Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Asia.' The older Hainan 

 bird has a long white blotch of white on the inner web of the 

 third outer rectrix, which is wanting in the younger and in the 

 Szechuen bird. I believe the Szechuen and the Hainan birds 

 to be of the same species. 



94. MoTAciLLA OCULARIS, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 275. 

 This Grey-backed Pied Wagtail, which occurs in China from 



Canton to Pekin, appears also to be tolerably common in Hai- 

 nan. I have three skins from that island. 



95. Calobates boarula (Temm.). 

 Not common. I shot one specimen. 



96. BuDYTES TAivANUSj B. fluvus (L.), var. rayi, Swinhoe, 

 Ibis, 1863. 



I shot two out of a party of Yellow Wagtails at Heongpoo 

 (W. Hainan) on the 26th of ]\Iarch. They are assuming the 

 yellow under dress, their heads are still dull olive tinged with 

 green, with the yellow eyebrow distinctly marked. They are 

 the same as the Formosan bird, which I have sometimes pro- 

 cured at Amoy. This species is to be distinguished from B. 

 rayihy its dark olive lores and ear-coverts, and duller plumage. 



97. BuDYTES CINEREOCAPILLUS, Savi. 



This I shot on West Island (S. Hainan) on the 15th March, 

 in full summer plumage. Head deep grey, with a black line 

 from rictus to ear-coverts; a small white spot in front of the 

 eye ; chin and base of lower mandible white, uuderparts fine 



