644 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 



I found the Tree-Creeper very abundant in the mountains 

 of the Liautung Peninsula in February 1890. It frequented 

 the trees near the villages and farms in the valleys as well 

 as the woods. 



25. Tichodroma muraria (L.). 

 llchodroma nmralis D. & O. p. 88. 



The Wall-Creeper is found in winter on the cliffs bordering 

 the Shih Ho or Shanhaikuan River. 1 have four examples, 

 all in winter plumage. One of these, taken in December, 

 has still a spot of black on the throat. 



26. Anortliura fumigata (T. & S.). 

 Troglodytes fumigatus D. & O. p. 225. 

 Anorthura fumigata La T. p. 567. 



The Chinese Wren is by no means an uncommon migrant 

 in tbis vicinity. I have two specimens shot at the port on 

 the 26th of March and 10th of April, 1911, and saw another 

 on the cliffs on the 31st of March, 1913. I have also a 

 number of examples obtained in autumn and winter. Tiie 

 earliest date on which I have seen this Wren in autumn is 

 the 10th of October. 



I have a very pale specimen, shot in November, which might 

 be an example of Olbiorchilus fumigatus idias Richmond 

 (Eliot Blackwelder, Carnegie lust. Wash. Publ. No. 54: 

 'Research in China,' vol. i. pt. ii. pp. 481-508), as the under 

 parts are very white. Other individuals shot at the same 

 season are hardly distinguishable from Lower Yangtse 

 specimens. Some examples shot at Shaweishan on the 

 autumn migration have the breast practically uniform. 

 Others from the same locality bear traces of the barring. 

 Birds from the Yangtse and all those from north-east Cliihii 

 have the throat and breast more or less barred. 



27. Regulus cristatus japonensis Blakiston. 



Regulus japonicus D. & O. p. 276 ; La Touche, Bulletin 

 B. O. C. vol. xxix. p. 139 (1912). 



The Japanese Goldcrest is apparently a very common 



