1863.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 313 



284. LiMOSA ^GOCEPHALA, L. (L. melamira, Leisler). 

 L, melanuroides, Gould, Birds of Austr. 



Never observed on the Chinese coast, and not nofed from the 

 Amoor by von Schrenck, MiddendorfF found young birds on the 

 great Schantar Island on the 11th August. Said to be found on 

 lakes and inland marshes of China, whence it is brought to the 

 Tientsin and Shanghai markets in winter. It is probably from 

 Mantchuria that these birds come, spreading down to the Indian 

 Archipelago southwards, and eastwards to North Australia, to both 

 of which places they resort in winter. Temminck and Schlegel note 

 it from Japan. 



285. PsEUDOSCOLOPAx SEMiPALMATUS, Jcrdon, Blyth, J. A. S. 

 xvii. 252. 



Micropalama tacsaiwivskia, J. Verreaus, Revue de Zoologie. 



Summers in inland Northern China and Mongolia, migrating 

 overland in winter southwards, occasionally into the plains of Hin- 

 dostan. Messrs. Jerdon and Blyth have procured it near Calcutta 

 and on the Coromandel coast in the cool season. I have one in 

 partially moulted plumage, shot in autumn at Hankow, Central 

 China, and another in full summer plumage from the neighbour- 

 hood of Tientsin. In its bright rufous summer garb, and in ahnost 

 every particular, this bird is a perfect Godwit. You have only to 

 cut off the bill, and it is almost undistinguishable from Limosa uro- 

 pygialis. It forms the same connecting link between Limosa and 

 Scolopax that Macroramphus griseus appears to form between To- 

 tanus and Scolopax. 



286. Scolopax rusticola, L. 



Very common in North China and Japan during winter. Fre- 

 quent, but rarer, during the same season on the hills of Southern 

 China. Curiously enough, it is not noted from Amoorland. Spe- 

 cimens identical with the European bird. 



287. Gallinago solitaria, Hodgs. 



Scolopax hyemalis (Grismann), Midd. Sib. Reise. 



I procured a specimen one winter on the hills of Amoy, which 

 was identified by Mr. Blyth as of this species. The specimen was 

 unfortunately never returned to me ; so I have not been able to com- 

 pare it with skins in museums in England. It is said by Messrs. 

 Temminck and Schlegel (' Fauna Japonica') to be also found in South 

 Japan. If so, we can easily account for its presence in Amoy. My 

 specimen haunted for several weeks a mountain stream, and did not 

 care apparently to mix with the Snipes of the rice-fields on the plains. 

 I may here remark that a large Snipe, brought by Captain Blakiston 

 from North Japan, was identical with G. australis, Gould, of Au- 

 stralia (see The Ibis, 1863, p. 416). 



288. Gallinago megala, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 343. 

 Scolopax palustris, Pall. 



