1863.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA, 297 



gives P. rufa \ and, from its approach to that species, the bird 

 mentioned by that authority would naturally be our species. But 

 from P. rufa ours is at once distinguishable by its short thicker bill, 

 and by the yellowish tips to its lesser and greater wing-coverts. In 

 the shape of its bill, ours has more affinity with P. eversmanni of 

 Siberia, figured in Middendorff, Sib. Reis., but differs also from that 

 in its yellowish wing-markings. 



1/6. PhYLLOPNEUSTE CORONATA. 



Ficedula coronata, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Jap. 



This is a summer visitant to North China and Japan, repairing in 

 winter to South China, at which latter season it occurs at Amoy. 

 Reguloides trochiloides, Sundevall, is a closely allied species from 

 India, but is smaller, has a smaller bill, and brighter yellow tips to 

 wing-coverts. It is the representative race of our species in more 

 Western Asia, and ought perhaps, with ours, rather to be included in 

 this genus than among the pseudo-Goldcrests. 



177. Reguloides superciliosxjs (Gm.). 



Reffulus tnodestus, Gould. 



Summers in North China and Japan, and is abundant during the 

 cold season throughout Southern China and Formosa. It is then 

 also said to occur in the plains of Hindostan. The bird shot by Mr. 

 J. Hancock, of Newcastle, on the coast of Yorkshire I have lately 

 had the privilege of examining, and find to be identical with my 

 Chinese examples. 



178. Reguloides proregulus. Pall. 



A summer visitant to North China, and a winter visitant to South 

 China. Recognized at once from the foregoing by its yellow rump- 

 band. I have procured this, as well as the last, near Pekin in Sep- 

 tember ; and I hence infer that this also ranges into the Amoor terri- 

 tory, and has been confounded by von Schrenck with the above. 



ZoSTEROPID^. 



179. ZosTEROPS SIMPLEX, Swiuhoc, p. Z. S. 1862, p. 317, et 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 294. 



This species ranges in China, from Canton to Foochow, and perhaps 

 a little higher, but not to Shanghai, where it is replaced by the fol- 

 lowing. In Formosa it is also an abundant resident. On its nesting 

 and habits I have already written much in The Ibis, and therefore 

 will not here repeat my remarks. It has its nearest ally in the Z.pal- 

 pebrosa of Indiii, being, like it, light grey on the under parts. An 

 occasional specimen or two, however, may be picked out of my Amoy 

 series with a tinge of chestnut-brown on the under parts, showing the 

 tendency of the species towards the Japanese Z. japonica. Some 

 have the belly deeper grey than others. The yellow on the throat and 



