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Very common all over the coast from Hongkong to Shanghai ? 



and cverywhere in Formosa. 

 G8. Pycnonotus atricapillus [Muscícapa atricapilla, Vieillot, nec 



L. ; Hwmatomis chrysorrhous, Lafr., and P. hcemorrhous apud 



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

 Found abundantly in some places in this neighbourhood, but 



peculiarly local, seldom straying far. 

 G9. Tchitrea principalis, (Temminck.) 



Figured in the Planches coloriées, and subsequently in tlie Fauna 



Japónica. A rare spring straggler here. 



70. Tchitrea cceruleocephala, (Quoy et Gaim.) 



71. Hemichelidon latirostris, (Raines) ; cinereo-alba, Temm. and 



Schleg., Faun. Japón. 

 A common winter visitant ; remarkable for its singing notes, 

 like tliose of a Red-breast, or chinking of two pieces of silver. 



72. Hemichelidon fuliginosa, Hodgson. 

 Straggles to Amoy in its vernal migrations. 



73. Hemichelidon rutilada, n, sp. 



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

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

 only during spring. 



Length 4 T V Wing 2 T V Tail ? Bill T \, to gape T % breadth J v 

 Tarsus T 5 ^-. Head and upper neck blackish-grey. Back and 

 scapulars reddish-brown. Wings blackish, margined with 

 burnt-sienna. Rump 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. Xanthopygia narcissina, (Temminck) ; — chrysophrys, Blyth. 



A rare spring visitant. 



75. Cyanoptila cyanomelanura, (Temminck.) 



Figured in the Fauna Japónica. Of rare occurrence here. 



Myiagra ccsrulea, Gmelin ? 



A blue Fly-catcher with a small bilí ; procurcdhere once. 



* The Pycnonotus atricapillus of my Catalogue, fouuded on ¿Egithia atricapUIc, 

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

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



