342 MR. H. SEEBOHM ON BIRDS [■^^P'"- '5, 



on the 27th of April and the 1st of May, and there is a fine series 

 in the Pryer collection from Japan. The females agree with the 

 plate in the 'Fauna Japonica' of Muscicapa hylochuris, which appears 

 to me to have been erroneously identified with Xanthopygia tricolor 

 (Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv. p. 250). The latter species is 

 not represented in the Pryer collection from Japan, nor is it included 

 in the 'Fauna Japonica;' consequently the adult male (stuffed) in 

 the British Museum, labelled " Japan, Leyden Museum," must be 

 regarded with suspicion, and is probahly a Chinese example. There 

 is no satisfactory evidence that X. tricolor has ever occurred in 

 Japan, whilst X. narcissina is a common bird there. 



Hemixus canipennis, sp. n. (Plate XXVII.) 



Hemixus dorso castaneo, alis cinereo tnarginatis. 



In the sixth vouline of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum 

 seven Bulbuls are placed in the genus Hemixus. A Bulbnl collected 

 by Herr Baun near Foo-chow appears to be perfectly distinct from 

 all of them, having the ashy-grey margins to the outer webs of the 

 quills, which are characteristic of Hemixus cinereus from Sumatra 

 and Malacca, combined with the chestnut-brown back, which has 

 hitherto been regarded as diagnostic of Hemixus castanonotus from 

 Hainan. '^ 



The Foo-chow species further differs from its Hainan ally in being 

 shghtly larger (total length Sj inches, culmen '85, wing 4-1, tail 3*8, 

 tarsus '75) ; in having the axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 

 with no stains of yellow ; and the breast and flanks grey, with no 

 brown on the former, and no olive on the latter ; and in having the 

 wings and tail-feathers dark grey instead of brown. 



There can be little doubt that this is the species which was 

 met with by Mons. de la Touche near Foo-chow (Styan, Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 224). 



loLE HOLTi (Swinhoe), Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vi. p. 61. 



lole dorso brunneo, ffulci cinered albo striata. 



Swinhoe's Bulbul has hitlierto only been known from the type 

 specimen in the Swinhoe collection from the Pih-ling hills near Foo- 

 chow, and from an example in the Leyden Museum from Hing-yang 

 (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 409). The occurrence of a third example 

 collected by Herr Baun at Puching on the 10th of May is conse- 

 quently very interesting. It appears to be a good species. 



It was originally described as Hypsipetes holtii (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 256), but was afterwards wrongly identified by its discoverer 

 with Hypsipetes maclellandi (Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 

 p. 369). 



PoMATORHiNUS swiNHOEi, David, Ann. So. Nat. xix. Art. 9 

 (1874). 



Pomatorhinus 2^^ctore niyro striato, tibiis cinereis, superciliis 



minime albis. 

 Herr Baun obtained an exam{)le of this fine species of Scimitar 





