18/3.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE BIRDS. 68/ 



whitish, clouded with greenish ochraceous, and crossed by lilacine 

 bands ; ocelli and markings as in male. 



Expanse of wings g 3^- inches, $ 3 inches 1 1 lines. 



Inhabits Queensland. 



Genus Atella.. 

 Atella bowdenia, n. sp. 



Allied to A. egista and A. sinha, form of the latter, but coloured 

 more as in the former, from which it differs above in the narrower 

 marginal brown border, the indistinctness of the submarginal lunules 

 of front wings, the absence of the discal series in hind wings, of the 

 discal spots in all the wings, the extension of the disco-costal macu- 

 late band of front wings. 



Wings below brighter ochraceous, the central and submarginal lu- 

 nated silvery bands much narrower than in A. egista ; discal series 

 of black spots very minute ; brown discal lunules obsolete. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 



Inhabits the Friendly Islands. 



Family Hesperid*. 



Subfamily Pamphtlin.e. 



Genus Pamphila. 

 Pamphila flossites, n. sp. 



Wings above olive-brown, the basal third and body with bright 

 metallic green shot ; fringe dirty whitish ; front wings with three 

 dirty white spots placed obliquely below median branches. 



Wings below ochraceous ; front wings with interno-basal half 

 black, and angle brown ; white spots of upperside clear, united, in- 

 creasing in width downwards ; body whitish. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



Ega {Bates). 



2. On the Long-tailed Jay of Northern China, with further 

 Notes on Chinese Ornithology. By Robert Swinhoe, 

 F.Z.S., H.M. Consul at Chefoo. 



[Received July 30, 1873.] 



My first and only interview with the Long-tailed Jay of Northern 

 China I reported in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1870, p. 448. 

 Its notes and habits seemed very similar to those of the bird of the 

 south ; and I was not successful in procuring specimens. Pere David 

 had procured it, and I suppose has sent it to Paris ; but if so, it 

 has been accepted there as of the ordinary species. A kind friend at 

 Pekin has at last sent me a specimen ; and I think those that will 

 read the following description will allow that our Urocissa of the 

 north is distinct from the species of the south and west. 



