88 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Northern China. 
Galerida, most of the species of which are generally understood 
to inhabit desert tracts. In this respect our species differs, for 
in Talien it seemed quite as partial to the corn-fields as the true 
Alaudce. None of the Russian ornithologists (Pallas, Midden- 
dorff, or v. Schrenck) notice a Crested Lark throughout Siberia; 
I feel, therefore, a greater confidence in considering my bird 
distinct. 
17. Columba leucozonura, Swinhoe. 
This is certainly the Pigeon which Pallas, in his f Zoograph. 
Rosso-Asiat/ (i. p. 560), describes as a rock-frequenting variety 
of C. cenas , whence Bonaparte names it C. rupestris . My name 
must therefore sink into a synonym. 
Now let us turn to the birds of Peking ( f Ibis/ vol. iii. p. 323). 
To this list my investigations, since my arrival in England, enable 
me to make several necessary corrections; and a fine series of 
skins, collected by Mr. Fleming, of the Royal Artillery, and 
kindly submitted for my inspection by Mr. Whiteley, naturalist, 
of Woolwich, places it in my power to record several important 
additions. 
3. Eagle Buzzard. Buteo -? 
The want of a defined tooth in the beak in my specimen led me 
to refer this bird to the genus Buteo. It is a specimen of the 
Saker Falcon— Falco sacer of Schlegel. 
5. Pied Harrier. Circus -? 
The bird observed by me must have been Circus melanoleucus 
(Gm.), as Mr. Whiteley's collection contains one of that species. 
It cannot therefore be referred to our Amoy Harrier, which Mr. 
Gurney identifies with C. spilonotus , Kaup. 
9. Accipiter nisus ? 
This specimen, as well as those procured by me in South 
China, are all referred by Mr. Gurney to the true A. nisus of 
Europe. 
From Mr. Whiteley's series I am enabled to add to the Peking 
list four other Accipitres, namely,— 
(1.) P oliornis pyrrhogenys, Schleg. Faun. Japon. 
There are in Mr. Fleming's collection a pair of Buzzards, in 
worn plumage, which Mr. Gurney considers to be of this species. 
