62 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Amoij Ornithology. 



~f" DrYM(ECA (?) PEKINENSIS, Sp. nOV. 



Nostrils apart, semilunate, partly covered by a rounded scale. 

 Bill moderately strong, notched near the tip, with strong bris- 

 tles on either side, and slighter curved ones on the chin and 

 throat. Wings small, rounded, and graduated. Tail long, of 

 twelve feathers, the outermost somewhat short, the rest much 

 less graduated. Tarse-scale divided ; feet moderate, with short 

 pointed claws, hind one largest and most hooked 



Upper parts olive- grey ; feathers on crown, back, and rump 

 broadly marked in the middle with black, and tinged with rusty- 

 maroon ; those of sides of neck grey, spotted with rusty. Super- 

 cilium pale; cheeks brownish, with an indistinct black moustache- 

 streak below the ear-patch. Quills light brown, edged with 

 whitish, the two middle tail-feathers olive-grey, brown near the 

 shafts, and edged with whitish ; rest of rectrices blackish brown, 

 margined with olive-grey, edged externally with white, the outer- 

 most tail-feather being white at the tip and on its apical outer 

 edge, and the shafts of all white beneath. Under parts dingy 

 white, streaked on the sides of breast and flanks with rusty- 

 maroon, the same colour washing the sides of the abdomen and 

 the tibise, and slightly tinging the belly and vent. Axillaries 

 rusty-white ; the underwing washed with the same. 



Bill (of dried skin) light brown, light ochreous on the basal 

 half of lower mandible. Legs light brownish-ochre, browner on 

 feet and claws. Label-ticket: — " 7th April, 1867; Pekin. ? . 

 Iris yellowish-grey.^' 



Length of skin 6'5 in. ; wing 2'4; fifth, sixth, and seventh 

 quills equal and longest ; first quill '9, second '4, third '2, and 

 fourth "08 shorter than the longest. Tail narrow, 3*3 in., outer 

 feather "75 in. shorter than the longest. Tarse "7 in. 



In the third week of August my hunter returned from the 

 Tingchow mountains — the high " Black-Tea range " — about 120 

 1^1 miles north-east from Amoy. I was delighted to find in his 

 / collection a genuine Dendrocitta sinensis, which he shot on the 

 road, returning. Wing 5*7 ; tail 6*75. This bird, by the downi- 

 ness of its throat and abdominal feathers, is evidently only a 

 bird of the year. Its tail has not acquired the adult length and 

 form, and the rich black and grey of the head have not made 



