'270 Mr. J. D. D. La Toache— Further Noles 



iiiulerparts greyish white, huffish on the breast, each feather 

 edged with blackish, this edging very wide on the chin, throat, 

 lower neck, and breast. Legs flesh-coloured, tinged with 

 plumbeous. Bill light livid violet. 



64. Taksiger cyanurus (Pall.). 



A few winter near Chiukiang. One was seen on 29 De- 

 cember 1907, and another at the end of February 1908. 



72. Oreocincla varia (Pall.). 



An example, shot in winter at Soochow, shows that this 

 bird occasionally winters on the lower Yangtse. 



73. Petrophila Manila (Bp.). 



31onticola solltaria La Touche, Ibis, 1906, p. 627. 



This Rock-Thrush appears to pass Chiukiaug regularly on 

 migration. An adult male, shot on 25 April 1908, agrees 

 in size and colouring with the large birds collected at Sha- 

 Aveishan. Two young males, shot on 9 September 1909, 

 are rather smaller, being almost similar in this respect to 

 examples breeding in north China and winter birds from- 

 south China. There seem to be two races of this Bock- 

 Tlirush : a large bird, with wing 4*62 in, in the female 

 to 5 "05 in. in the male, which passes through the lower 

 Yangtse valley and probably summers in Japan, occa- 

 sionally wintering in south-eastern China ; and a smaller 

 bird, with rather less extent of blue on the breast, which 

 winters in south-eastern China, Formosa, and the Philip- 

 pines, and breeds iu northern China. The wing-formula 

 in the two races appears to be rather different : the large 

 bird has the second primary intermediate between the fifth 

 and sixth ; the smaller bird has it just under the fifth or 

 equal to it, or sometimes between the fourth and fifth. 



7Q. COCCOTHRAUSTES JAPOXICUS T. & S. 



Several examples have since been obtained from the local 

 bird-catchers. 



78. EoPHONA MiGRATORiA Hartcrt. 



I procured a handsome pair from the local bird-catchers, 

 and saw^ others in their possession. 



