492 Messrs. C. B. Rickett and J. D. de La Touche on 



stripe. Lesser wing-coverts light olive-green ; greater darker, 

 and with paler edges. Tips of median and greater coverts 

 yellow, forming two wing-bars, of which the vipper is the less 

 conspicuous. Quills brown, edged externally with olive- 

 green ; those on primaries paler. Edge of wing, under wing- 

 coverts, and axillaries bright yellow. Middle tail-feathers 

 olive-green ; rest brown, tinged and edged externally with 

 olive-green, and narrowly margined internally with yellowish 

 white. Underparts greyish white, more or less suffused 

 with yellow. Middle of belly whitish. Under tail-coverts 

 greenish yellow. 



[This identification is doubtless correct. — W. R. O. G.] 



SuTHORA WEBBiANA, Gray. 



By post we send two skins, and would be grateful for 

 your opinion as to the correctness of our identification. 

 The specimens we shall be pleased to present to the British 

 Museum. 



[Correctly identified.— W. R. O. G.] 



\ Amaurornis akool (Sykes) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xxiii. p. 155 (1894). 



Four specimens are identical with two sent by De La 

 Touche to the Rev. H. H. Slater from Swatow, and described 

 by the latter in ' The Ibis,' 1891, p. 44, as a new species 

 under the name of Gallinula (^Amaurornis) coccineipes. 



-V- CiNCLUs PALLAsi, Tcmm. 



Eight specimens from this province, compared with six 

 Formosan skins in Mus. de La Touche, show a marked 

 difference in the bill, which is longer and coarser in the 

 Fohkien birds : — 



Average culmen in Fohkien birds . . 0*85 inch. 

 „ J, Formosan birds . 0"75 „ 



Otherwise they are much alike. 



List No. 2 gives our additions to the Foochow birds 

 published in 'The Ibis' for July 1892, pp. 400 & 477, and 

 1894, p. 215. 



