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Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology 
brown, margined with reddish olive. Throat buff. Breast and 
axillae olive, tinted with buff. Belly and vent white, touched 
with the same colour. 
Length 6 in., wing 3f, expanse 9, tail 2^. 
Testicles in the male small and black . Gizzard roundish, f in. 
in diameter, lined inside with a moveable rugose cuticle of an 
ochreous colour, and containing for the most part small beetles, 
most of which were unbroken. Intestines thick and fragile, 
with no caeca. 
63. Campephaga 
This bird is occasionally seen at Amoy. I first met with it 
at Macao on the 21st of March, where its loud notes, repeated 
at intervals, attracted my attention. It was singing in a bush, 
but on being disturbed flew up to the branch of a tree, whence 
it continued to pour forth its notes. At Canton it was not un¬ 
common . The immature bird is indistinctly barred on the under 
parts, the tints are much lighter, and a broad white bar occurs 
across the wing, visible when the bird flies. In this last charac¬ 
teristic of the immature dress this species approaches the Peri- 
crocotij which in most cases have a white under-wing band. 
Mr. Blyth ignores the name which I have applied to it. I 
must therefore leave the identification of the species to Mr. 
Sclater; and I think it is very probable that it will prove 
new*. 
64. Pericrocotus cinereus (Lafr.). 
This bird visited Hongkong in small flocks during the first 
week in April, when I was enabled to procure a nice series of 
males. A little later in the same month I saw a small party of 
them at Canton; but I am convinced that they were migrating, 
and merely passing over. 
65. Pericrocotus cantonensis, n. sp. idc 
A smaller species than the preceding, and evidently resident at 
Canton. I send a male and female for Mr. Sclater to examine 
* This bird is a close ally of Volvocivora lugubris (Sund.) of India and 
V.jimbriata (Temm.) of Java, which, I suspect, is distinct from the Indian 
bird. The single specimen sent appears to agree best with the description 
of V. melanoptera (Campephaga melanoptera, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 307), 
from Arracan. 
