64 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Amoy Ornithology . 



dull greenish -black. The crown of the head is of the same dull 

 colour. The nuchal spot, the tips to the greater wing-coverts, 

 and the edgings to the tertiaries are washed with greenish- 

 yellow. The mantle is dull olive-green, as also are the margins 

 of the secondaries. The rest of the plumage is lighter and 

 duller than in the adult. To show that I am not wrong in 

 regarding this as the young of P. commixtus, I have a specimen 

 acquiring the adult plumage, in which the yellow of the under 

 parts is giving place to the greyish-white. The glossy blue- 

 black breast-band and mesial stripe are beginning to show. The 

 bluish-grey of the rump, and the livelier green of the back, 

 together with other distinguishing marks, are showing through, 

 and confirm the identity. The young birds referred to were shot 

 while in company with the adult of P. commixtus. It is only 

 for convenience, as I have said before, that I propose to admit 

 P. commixtus as a species. When I get a series from various 

 points in China and Japan, as I hope to do, I shall probably 

 have something more to say on the subject. 



Perhaps the most interesting of all I received from Tingchow 

 was a species of Long-tailed Titmouse of the semitropical form 

 JEgithaliscus. Most of the specimens were unfortunately in 

 moult and imperfect. 



JEgithaliscus anophrys, sp. nov. 



Closely allied to ^. erythrocephalus of the Himalayas, but 

 differing from Dr. Jerdon's description of that bird (B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 271) in having no white superciliary stripe, and the breast 

 and belly, below the black throat-spot, pure white with a broad 

 deep-chestnut breast-band and chestnut down the flanks, paler 

 on the sides of the abdomen and browner on the tibise, tipped 

 with white on the vent. 



Length (of skin) 3-5 in. ; wing 1-8 in.; tail 1*8 in. 



The full-grown young has the whole of the under parts white, 

 with a tinge of ochreous-yellow on the breast and belly; the crown 

 brownish-grey instead of brick-dust red ; the upper parts dingy- 

 grey. The quills are brown, washed with olive, and edged with 

 yellowish-olive. Except for the downy state of many of its 



