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~' AsTUR cucuLoiDEs (Temiii,). (Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 115.) 

 An adult male with pale lower parts and buff chesty as 

 contrasted with the deep vinous colour of those parts in 

 A.soloensis. The belly^ thighs, under tail coverts, axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts are not, however, pure white, but 

 are washed with pale buff. 



II. Lower Yangtse District. 



The following ten species must be added to the list of 

 birds of the Lower Yangtse basin already published in ' The 

 Ibis' (1891, p. 316). I take this opportunity of correcting 

 a clerical error on that page. The distance between Ichang 

 (where the lower river begins) and Chinkiang (at the head of 

 the delta) is 850, not 450, miles ; the river runs 150 mdes 

 through the delta, making the total length of the district 

 treated of as the Lower Yangtse Basin 1000 miles. 



12 a. MoNTicoLA GULARis (Swinlioc). (Seebohm, Cat. B. 

 V. p. 326.) 



I obtained one at Kinkiang in May, and Mr. Schmacker 

 one at Shanghai in October. It is probable that all the 

 Rock-Thrushes which pass through Shanghai on migration 

 are of this species, which is more of a forest bird than 

 M. solitarius. The latter is with us throughout the year on 

 the coast and at suitable spots on the Yangtse, and if any 

 migration takes place northwards in spring it probably 

 follows the line of coast. I have been surprised by good 

 observers describing birds seen in their gardens which were 

 evidently Eock-Thrushes, and which I have heretofore pre- 

 sumed to be M. solitarius, though that species is seldom seen 

 far from its favourite rocks. Now that M. gularis is proved to 

 pass through the district I have little doubt that the birds 

 in question were of this species. 



55 a. iEoiTHALUs coNSOBRiNus, Swiuhoc. (Gadow, Cat. 

 B. viii. p. 67.) 



Originally described by Swinhoe from specimens obtained 

 at Sha-se, then found in Amoorland by Radde, and subse- 

 quently in Southern Manchuria by ]\Ir. de La Touchc. On 



