1870.] MR. R. SWINHUE ON CHINESE WAGTAILS. 129 
the Chinese province of Szechuen, beyond the town of Ta-tsien-loo, 
through which runs one of the great routes to Lhassa. 
According to information received from Mr. Stone, it seemed 
probable that the collections of bird-skins received in Paris, which 
contained the new Impeyan (Lophophorus lV’ huysi), the new Itha- 
ginis (I. geoffroyi*), and the new Crossoptilon (C. drouyniit), had 
been also made in the same district, which would thus appear to be 
a country of no ordinary interest as regards its Phasianide. 

The following papers were read :-— 
1. On the Pied Wagtails of China. 
By Rosert Swinuog, F.Z.S.—Part II. 
At the last Meeting of the Society a paper of mine was read on 
the Pied Wagtails of China (see anted, p. 120). In that I confined 
my attention to the Motacille with white faces and black backs. 
In the present notice I wish to make the list complete by adding the 
other species of the group that I have met with in that empire. 
4. MoraciLLa FRONTATA, Sp. Nov. 
The only specimen of this was a male procured in Amoy on the 
30th November, 1866. I reported the occurrence in my “ Notes on 
Amoy Ornithology” (Ibis, 1867, p. 390). . It is a small species, 
in form more nearly related to M. ocularis, mihi, than to M. felix, 
mihi, but wants the black eye-streak of the former. 
Length about 7 inches; wing 3°4; tail 3:5; bill °45, short and 
slender ; tarse °83, with small feet and claws. Wing blacker than in 
M. felix, with the winglet and primaries only slightly edged with 
white. Tail similar. The upper parts are becoming black. The 
crown and nape black ; forehead also black, the bases of the feathers 
white. The nuchal black advances to the ear-coverts, and a broad 
erescent of the same marks the breast. What the full nuptial plu- 
mage would be, it is not easy to guess; but I fancy the whole face 
and neck would be black, leaving only the eyebrow and throat white. 
Its greatest peculiarity is in the black forehead, which characterizes 
M. lugubris, Pall., of Western Siberia, and M. maderaspatana of 
Bengal, but is not possessed by any of the others of our Chinese 
Wagtails. 
I was at first inclined to think that this bird might be a cross be- 
tween M. ocularis and M. felix (see Ibis, J. c.); but the black forehead 
prevents this supposition. I am now of opinion that it is a good 
species, with a habitat of its own, but, like most of the Pied Wagtails, 
that it moves about in winter, and has thus strayed to Amoy. 
5. MoraciLua ocuxaris, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 17. 
This species with a grey back I have from various localities from 
* Verreaux, Bull. Soc. Acclim, Paris, 1867, p. 709. 
+ Verreaux, Nouy. Arch. d, Mus. iy. Bull. p. 85, pl. 3. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1870, No. IX. 
