16 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 



given my reasons in the last number of ' The Ibis ' for placing 

 this species in that genus. In the Museum at St. Petersburg 

 are two very beautiful skins of adult birds of this species from 

 the Ussuri river. Young birds have been obtained by Dy- 

 boffsky in Daouria, and have been described by Elliot as C. 

 subflavescens from the same locality. Swinhoe described the 

 adult passing through China on migration, as C.fumigata, 

 and also recorded it from Japan. Wallace described A. 

 insular is from Gilolo and Morty; and Gray described his A. 

 fasciolatus from skins collected by Wallace in Batchian, Gi- 

 lolo, and Morty. I think I may fairly claim that all the 

 known facts of the geographical distribution of these two 

 birds are in favour of my theory that they are young and 

 adult of one species. 



ACCENTOR MONTANELLUS (Pall.). 



I first noticed this bird on the 19th of June, a quiet skulk- 

 ing bird, rarely seen on the wing, and principally frequenting 

 the willows near the banks of the Yen-e-say'. Four days 

 afterwards I had a long chase on the Koo-ray'-i-ka side of 

 the river after a bird whose song I had frequently heard before. 

 It was a short unpretentious song, something like that of our 

 Hedge-Sparrow. The bird was generally on the top of a high 

 tree, where it sang its short song, and went onto another tree. 

 At last I succeeded in shooting it from the top of a pine, and 

 was astonished to find it the Mountain- Accentor. I did not 

 meet with it again until I reached lat. 70J, where I found it 

 breeding in the island of Mah'-laBrek'-off-sky. Here it was 

 skulking among the willows, like a Grasshopper- Warbler. 

 The nest was within a foot of the ground ; but I was so worried 

 with mosquitoes that I neglected to note the materials of 

 which it was composed. The eggs are blue, like those of our 

 Hedge-Sparrow. I did not meet with it further north. 



HIRUNDO RUSTICA, Linn. 



On the IGth of May a solitary Barn-Swallow appeared. I 

 did not see another until we were within a hundred miles of 

 Yen-e-saisk' on the return journey. At that town they were 

 common enough. 



