FETCH OR A 519 



wide bill, and in having the outer tail-feathers smoke- 

 brown where they are white in most Pipits. This bird 

 was first described by Swinhoe (P.Z.S., 1863, p. 90) from 

 skins obtained at Amoy, in South China ; he afterwards 

 obtained several birds from Chefoo, in North China. In 

 both localities the birds were apparently on migration. 

 Still more recently he obtained a skin from Lake Baikal. 

 Finsch and Brehm observed the bird during their visit to 

 the Ob in the summer of the present year (1876), and 

 succeeded in obtaining one specimen. "We may therefore 

 conclude that this species has a somewhat similar (though 

 slightly more northerly) range to that of Pliylloscopus 

 borealis, breeding in the north of the Paloearctic region 

 not far from the limit of forest growth, from the Petchora 

 to the Lena, passing through China on migration, and (if 

 it is safe to reason from analogy) probably wintering in 

 the islands of the Malay Archipelago. It probably also 

 breeds, a little above the limit of forest-growth, on the 

 mountains near Lake Baikal.* 



The Stonechat with the white rump and almost 

 entirely black axillaries, which we have described as 

 the Asiatic form of Pratincola rubicola, is now generally 

 admitted to be a good species, and should therefore stand 

 as Pratincola maura, Pallas. The Western species has 

 the upper tail-coverts more or less spotted, and the axil- 

 laries white, with concealed dusky bases. 



The Pliylloscopus mentioned on page 24 as allied to 



* Since the above was written we have been informed that this bird 

 has been obtained from the Philippine Islands and from Borneo. 

 A. gustavi has also been procured in winter at Manilla (Bruggemann, 

 Abhandl. Vcr. Bremen, v. p. 67), Celebes (Bruggemann, he. cit., 

 Walden, Tr. Z. ., viii. p. 117), and Batchian (Walden, loc. cit.}. In 

 the British Museum there are also skins from Borneo and Negros. It 

 :lpejirs that the skins from Batchian were described by Gray as 

 Anthus batcliianensis, which adds a third synonym to the list of titles 

 of the Petchora Pipit. 



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