Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Hongkong , fyc. 23 
" The Spanish name should be spelt ‘ Curricinga / nec Curri - 
cunga. 
“ I was wrong in calling it ‘ the road to Guaqua Pichincha ’; it 
is merely the track or tracks made by the 1 snow-carriers/ who 
bring down that article daily, and supply the inhabitants of 
Quito with the luxury they please to name * ice. J It requires con¬ 
siderable experience to follow these paths, in safety, through the 
f paj a } or long grass with which the Paramo is clothed. 
“ All that I remember, beyond what is already published in 
the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, is having noticed for 
the first time a few pairs walking in the grass, amongst the cattle, 
on the table-lands to the south of Quito, when en route for 
Babahoyo in June 1859.” 
There appear to be, therefore, three nearly allied species of 
Milvago , forming the subsection Phalcobcenus , and occupying 
different areas in South America. 
1. M. carunculatus. Pectore nigro, albo guttato. Ex mont. 
Novse Granadee et reipubl. Equatorialis. 
2. M. megalopterus ( Aquila megaloptera, Meyen: Phal- 
cobcenus montanus , Lafr. et d^Orb.). Pectore nigro, immaculato. 
Ex mont. Peruvise et Bolivise. 
3. M. albogularts, Gould (Darw. Zool. Beagle, pi. 1. p. 18). 
Gutture et pectore albis. Ex Patagonia. 
III .—Notes on the Ornithology of Hongkong, Macao , and Canton , 
made during the latter end of February, March, April, and the 
beginning of May, 1860. By Robert Swinhoe, of H. B. M/s 
Consular Service. 
Hongkong is set down as distant 280 miles by sea from Amoy, 
and, being in latitude 22° 15 f , falls well within the tropics. We 
ought therefore naturally to expect more interesting feathered 
forms than appear in the subjoined list; yet, if you exclude the 
Micronisus gabar (which may also occasionally be found at 
Amoy) and the large Ketupa, no bird came within my observation 
about Hongkong and its neighbouring main which does not 
occur somewhere in the neighbourhood of Amoy. 
At Macao I fell in with two species I had not seen before; 
