374 Mr. R. Swinhoe on three new Species 



land, at the entrance to tliis liarbour, I would dedicate it to 

 Mr. Campbell, the keeper of the lighthouse, to whom I am 

 indebted for many good birds dui'ing this spring season of 

 migration. 



Turdus CamphelU^ sp. nov. 



All the upper parts dusky slaty ash-colour ; quills and rec- 

 trices hair-brown on their inner webs. Throat pale yellowish 

 ashy ; breast ashy ; centre of lower breast, belly, and under 

 tail-coverts white ; the side-feathers of the last with their 

 outer webs yellowish alongside the stems, broadly margined 

 with hair-brown. Sides of lower breast and belly, tibial fea- 

 thers, and axillaries rich yellowisli or golden chestnut, the 

 same washing the basal portions of the inner webs of most of 

 the rectrices on their underside. 



Length of fresh bird about 9 inches. Wing 4*7 ; first quill 

 0'35 shorter than second, which with the third is the longest 

 in the wing ; fourth 0"1 shorter ; the wing falls 2*15 

 short of tail-tip. Tail 3*4, of twelve equal pointed or mu- 

 cronate feathers; under tail-coverts 1'2 short of tail. Bill 

 in front 0'82, from gape 1'05 ; tarse 1'23 ; middle toe 0*9, its 

 claw 0-28. 



Bill, inside of mouth, and skin round eye orange-yellow ; 

 legs and claws the same. 



The specimen from which the description was taken proved 

 a male on dissection, with enormous testes, showing that the 

 bird was on the point of breeding. It will be seen that the 

 above diagnosis of this novelty agrees closely with that of 

 Jerdon (' Birds of India,' vol. i. p. 519) of the Geocichla 

 unicolor^ Blyth, of North India, as to size, and a good deal as 

 to coloration. The main difference consists in the richer ru- 

 fous on the underparts of our bird being otherwise distributed, 

 and in the markings of the under tail-coverts. 



2. Golden-hilled Button-quail. 



In August 1860, during the North-China campaign, on our 

 march from Tientsin to Pekin, I came across two French 

 officers shooting in a field of millet. They had knocked over 

 a Button-quail, which seemed to me richer in colour than our 

 South-China species ; but I got no specimens myself, and I 

 set it down as the same. Soon after my arrival at this place 

 the Buttons began to come (commencement of May), and for 

 the first week or so all brought to market were females ; the 

 males arrived later on. The Chinese here call them ^' Hwang- 

 Ian," and prefer the females for their superior size and pugna- 

 cious proclivities, and fight them as they do quails. The 



