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/ 71. Phyllopneuste coronata. 
Ficedula coronata, c Fauna Japonica/ t. 18. 
Summers in North China, the Amoor, and Japan; and winters 
in South China, at which season a few visit Formosa. 
/ 72. Phyllopneuste sylyicultrix. 
Phylloscopus sylvicultrix , Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 53. 
A summer visitant to South China, passing in large numbers 
through Amoy in its autumnal migrations south-eastwards, 
probably to the Philippines. In these passages it touches at 
South-west Formosa; and at Taiwanfoo, for a few days in 
October, I found them abundant. I neither saw them before 
nor afterwards; nor did I meet with them at Tamsuy. I have 
the following note on a specimen shot at Taiwanfoo, 10th October, 
1862 :—“ Length 4^ in.; wing 2^; tail 1 Bill light olive- 
black, with edges and basal half of lower mandible yellowish. 
Inside of mouth and rictus bright yellow. Eyelid black; iris 
dark brown. Legs and claws olive-brown, somewhat washed 
with olive-yellow, especially on joints.” 
v 73. Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.). 
Regulus modestus, Gould. 
Reguloides proregulus of Blyth, and of my former lists. 
I always understood this species, which is identical with Mr. 
Gould’s Dalmatian Gold-crest, to be the Motacilla proregulus of 
Pallas, until the other day, at Leyden, Prof. Schlegel told me 
that he thought Pallas’s description applied rather to the R. 
chloronotus , Hodgs.; and on carefully perusing the c Zoograph. 
Rosso-Asiat.’ (p. 499) I certainly find this to be the case. Pallas 
there tells you that he observed his bird in the beginning of 
May, in Daiiria; and in the description that follows distinctly 
says, “ Dorsum cinereo-flavum vel virescens, ut et tectrices 
caudse; sed zona lata uropygii albido-flava (Mark the words 
in italics.) This whitish-yellow rump-band never occurs in the 
R. modestus, but always in the R. chloronotus, Hodgs. I found 
both species common at Peking in summer, and they doubtless 
also pass ‘that season in Siberia. In winter both species spread 
down the coast of China, and away even to the plains of India. 
The R. modestus is generally met with singly; the R. chloronotus 
