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Very common all over the coast from Hongkong to Shanghai^ 



and everywhere in Formosa. 

 68. Pycnonotus atricapillus \Muscicapa atricapilla, Vieillot, nee 



L. ; Hcematornis clirysorrhous, Lafr., and P. licemorrlious apud 



Hartlaub, Bev. Zool. &c. 1846, p. 1 .*] 

 Pound abundantly in some places in this neighbourhood, but 



peculiarly local, seldom straying far. 

 G9. Tcliitrea principalis, (Temminck.) 



Figured in the Planches coloriees, and subsequently in the Fauna 



Japonioa. A rare spring straggler here. 



70. Tcliiirea cceraleocepliala, (Quoy et Gaim.) 



71. Hemiclielidon latirostris, (Raffles) ; cinereo-alba, Temm. and 



Schleg., Faun. Japon. 

 A common winter visitant ; remarkable for its singing notes, 

 like those of a Ped-breast, or chinking of two pieces of silver. 



72. Hemiclielidon fuliginosa, Hodgson. 

 Straggles to Amoy in its vernal migrations. 



73. Hemiclielidon rutilata, n. sp. 



This species approximates H. latirostris in form, but has a bill 

 even broader at the base. It is of rare occurrence here and 

 only during spring. 



Length 4 T V Wing 2 T %. Tail ? Bill T %, to gape ^, breadth ^ 

 Tarsus — •. Head and upper neck blackish-grey. Back and 

 scapulars reddish-brown. Wings blackish, margined with 

 burnt-sienna. Pump and tail tile-red, the feathers of the 

 latter more or less marked with blackish. Throat and fore- 

 neck white, yellowish on their sides. The rest of the lower 

 parts, excepting just the abdomen which is white, reddish or 

 burnt-sienna ochre, more or less intense. 



74. Xantliopygia narcissina, (Temminck) ; — chrysopltrys, Blyth. 



A rare spring visitant. 



75. Cyanoptila cyanomelanwra, (Temminck.) 



Figured in the Fauna Japonica. Of rare occurrence here. 



Myiagra ccerulea, Ginelin ? 



A blue Fly-catcher with a small bill ; procured here once. 



* The Pycnonotus atricapillus of my Catalogue, founded on 2Egiiliia atricapilla, 

 Vieillot, v. Sylvia nigricapilla, Drapiez, a Ceylon bird, is referred to a new genus, 

 Meropixus, by the Prince of Canino. — Cur. As. Soc. 



