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131. CoTYLE SINENSIS, J. E. Gray. 



Distinguished from the foregoing by its much shorter tail. Re- 

 presents the form in South China and Formosa, repairing thither in 

 summer to breed. It visits the plains of Hindostan in winter, and is 

 said to breed there again in that season. Mr. Tristram tells me that 

 he found the C. riparia breeding in Egypt in winter ; and as they all 

 disappear from that country in summer, it is not improbable that it 

 is the same bird that visits Europe, and breeds a second time on 

 arrival at its summer quarters. 



MuSCICAPIDiE. 



132. Hemichelidon sibirica, Gmel. 



Muscicapa fuscedula, Pall. 

 H. fuliffinosa, Hodgson. 



I have only one of this very interesting species procured at Amoy. 

 Ours is rather larger and has longer wings than the Himalayan bird, 

 but I think is the same. It is said to range to the Amoor, and 

 beyond to Kamtschatka. Its axillaries, under wings, and tips to 

 greater wing-coverts are strongly rufescent, and approximate it to 

 the following, from which it may be considered subgenerically to 

 differ in the shape of the wing, though the several members of this 

 group, as I have enumerated them, connect this in regular gradation 

 with the typical Butalis grisola. 



133. Butalis ferruginea, Hodgs. 



Butalis riifescens, Jerdon. 



Hemichelidon rufilata, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 57. 



This is a summer visitant to South China. It is not very com- 

 mon ; but every spring a few make their appearance at Canton and 

 Amoy. It is identical with the Indian bird. 



134. Butalis latirostris. Raffles. 



Muscicapa pondiceriana (Licht.), Midd. Sib. Reis. 

 M, cinereo-alba, Schleg. Faun. Japon. 



Is a winter visitant to South China, from North China, the Amoor- 

 land, and Japan. It is identical with the Indian species, which is 

 there a winter visitant, probably from Siberia, whence it is recorded 

 as a summer bird. 



135. Butalis griseisticta, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 330. 



Muscicapa grisola, var. daurica, Pall. 



This links the small half-Swallow group of Fly-catchers with the 

 spotted Butalis, and might with propriety be placed in either genus. 

 It is a summer visitant to China, at which season I have found it as 

 far north as Peking. 



