2/2 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. [JunC 23, 



72. Alauda CfELivox, Swiuhoe, Zoologist, 18G0. 



This is a small Lark common from Canton to Foochow, and in 

 Formosa. My specimens from the latter place are more largely 

 spotted on the back, and the streaks on the breast are much broader 

 and numerous, but they are otherwise so similar that they can only 

 be regarded as a race. 



73. Galerida leantungensis. 



Alauda leantungensis, Swdnhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 256. 



Common about the hills of cultivated valleys of Talien Bay, North 

 China. A species of crested Lark is noticed by Pallas as Alauda 

 galerita from Dauria. 



74. Otocorys alpestris, L. 



O. j)eniciUata, Gould. 



O. scriba, Bp. 



O. albigula, Brandt. 



A specimen was procured by Mr. Fleming at Tientsin (see The 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 95). Von Schrenck notes a bird of this genus as the 

 O. alpestris, L., from Amoorland. I have compared mine, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Tristram, with a specimen of O. alpestris of Europe, 

 and we can find no difference. All the species of this genus appear 

 to get yellow faces in the breeding-season. 



75. CORYDALLA RICHARDI, Vieill. 



C. sinensis, Bp. 



Anthus thermophilus, Hodgs., of my previous lists. 



C. infuscata, Blyth. 



I have a very large number of this species, shot at Amoy and else- 

 where in China, Siam, and India. It is in South China a winter 

 bird, but a few remain about the hills to breed. I found a few on 

 the Foochow hills in June ; these were smaller, with larger bills and 

 legs, and darker and more distinctly marked plumage. I sent one 

 to Mr. Blyth, who, under the impression that it came from the 

 Philippines, christened it under the new name C. infuscata. But 

 between this and the ordinary winter race I have every gradation of 

 form and plumage. I also procured in spring at Amoy a few speci- 

 mens of a somewhat smaller Pipit, richly washed with ochreous ; 

 this is Bonaparte's species C sinensis, and, if correctly identified by 

 Mr. G. R. Gray, Anthus thermophilus, Hodgs. But here again in my 

 large series every step both in form and colour occurs between it and 

 the larger pale race. It is easy to conjecture how these different 

 climatic races of the same bird should turn up at one spot. For 

 the island of Amoy by its position affords a resting-place to vast 

 numbers of birds bound on widely different migrations ; and the 

 different groups of the Richard's Pipit, influenced in their forms and 

 tints by the greater or lesser heat of their birth-places and summer 

 resorts, and doubtless by other local causes, in passing to their winter 



