248 Ornithology of Amoy. [No. 3, 



my genus Arundinax. The tail, however, is ohscurely striated 

 across, which I do not observe in my A. olivaceus ; and your 

 bird has also a much stronger hind-toe and claw, quite dispro- 

 portionately so as regards the anterior toes. The white of its 

 wings underneath is remarkable. The tail is less graduated 

 than in A. olivaceus. 

 I have compared this with the descriptions of Salicaria cantons 

 and cantillans in the Fauna Japonica, and though closely 

 allied to the former it certainly is not the same. The cantons 

 seems to bear to the cantillans the same analogy that this 

 species bears to the succeeding." 



33. Arundinax (?) minutus, n. sp. [Ibis, Vol. II, 52.] 



This is a most singular miniature of the foregoing, resembling 

 it almost exactly in colour, but differing considerably in size. 

 Length 5 ; wing 2~ ; 2 T >-. This bird is also more robust in 

 build, livelier and more open in habits, and is rarer here than 

 the foregoing. Were it not for both birds occuning at the 

 same season, one would be inclined to look upon this as merely 

 a degenerate variety of the other. 



34. Phylloscopus fuscatus, Blyth. 



Common during winter, and stays so late in spring that I have 

 a strong suspicion that it nidificates in the neighbourhood. It 

 entertains us during the early vernal months with its pretty 

 shake song, but its most frequent note is " chick chick" 



35. Phylloscopus tenellipes, n. sp. [Ihis, Vol. II, 53.] 



This species has delicate light pink-coloured feet, hence the name. 

 Length 4 T 9 T , wing 2|, 1st quill | in. ; 2nd 1-f, 3rd 2 in. the 

 4th slightly longer and the longest in the wing. The 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th quills sinuated on the outer web ; the rest inwards 

 with mucronate tips. Tail 2, the feathers nearly equal, moder- 

 ately broad, rounded on the outer web towards the tip, and 

 sinuated on the inner, both leading to a point. Expanse 7 t 6 q-. 

 Bill -2 9 o, to gape t 6 q. Tarsus |^; middle toe -^ ; outer 

 longer than the inner ; hind toe f. Beak brownish, pale flesh- 

 coloured on the tip and tomia of upper mandible and basal 

 half of lower. Inside of mouth flesh-ochre. Upper -parts olive- 

 green, brown on the head and upper back. Eye-streak and 



