416 Mr. W. R. Ogilvic-Grant on the Genus Turnix. 



shot on 2nd November^ evidently migrating, on a small rocky- 

 islet off the coast, where its solitary companion was a Tar- 

 siger cyanurus. 



A specimen killed at Shanghai on 28th February is in 

 almost full plumage, the black throat being only slightly 

 barred with white, and a few brown spots appearing in the 

 crown. 



9. Pastor roseus (L.). 



A single immature specimen now in the Shanghai Museum 

 was shot in the spring of 1888 at Shanghai. It was probably 

 one of a flock, as the native who killed it would not be likely 

 to fire at a single bird of this description. 



I am not aware whether there is more than one species of 

 Rose-coloured Starling known, and have no skins or books of 

 reference to guide me, so may be wrong in attaching the name 

 of the European species to this bird. 



10. Halcyon coromanda (Lath.). 



This southern species, which occurs in Formosa, the 

 Liuchiu Islands, and Japan, occasionally appears in China. 

 A specimen in the Shanghai Museum was taken on an island 

 at the mouth of the Yangtse ; one was sent to the British 

 Museum among a collection of birds made in Manchuria by 

 Mr. H. E. M. James; and a native who knows birds well 

 tells me he has met with it in the province of Kiangsi. 



11. Dendrocygna javanica (Horsf.). 



A specimen in the Shanghai Museum was taken near 

 Soochow last autumn. It is probably a very I'are visitor to 

 China, though the Nettapus coromandelianus comes in large 

 numbers to breed in the Yangtse valley every year. 



XLII. — On the Genus Turnix. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



(Plate XIV.) 

 The twenty-two known species of the genus Turnix arc 

 primarily divisible into a few groups which can be easily 

 distinguished from one another ; but to clearly define each 

 of the several species included m these groups is by no 



