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branches overhead to sway to and fro ; for such insects were found 
in its stomach. 
Our Cypselus affinis is more strictly Blythes Malayan C. sub - 
furcatus; and the Querquedula multicolor is the Anas falcaria, 
/ Pallas. 
No. 8, Micronisus badius, Gmelin, I have already informed you, 
/ is, according to Blyth, Accipiter virgatus , Temminck. 
No. 87, p. 358, Munia minima , Lath., I have received from 
Mr. Blyth, ticketed Munia acuticauda , Hodgson, Burmah; and 
another species was at the same time sent from Calcutta, bearing 
a similar form, but with blacker breast and cheeks, named Munia 
striata, Linn. Specimens in my present collection from Formosa 
are identical with that procured at Burmah, though a specimen 
from Shanghai appears to be different. 
Tchitrea c&ruleocephala, Quoy et Gaim.? (No. 66 of my first 
i/' paper) proves to be Myiagra azurea , Bodd.; and to the Flycatcher 
list I must add another species, Stoparola melanops , Vigors. Both 
these birds Mr. Blyth tells me are common in Bengal. Of the 
former two females were procured here in the autumn of 1859, 
and one female of the latter. We cannot therefore look upon 
them but as rare stragglers to this island. 
No. 12. Circus , sp. ?, is closely affine to, if not identical with, 
Circus uliginosus of America. There is a specimen of this species 
in a cabinet at Hongkong procured from Manilla through 
Mr. Cuming. 
Of the two Caprimulgida, one affine to C. jot aka of Japan is 
described by Mr. Blyth as C. swinhoei; the other that gentleman / 
S tells me is a very near ally of C. monticola of Asia. ^ 
The rest of the doubtful species of Amoy I have sent you with 
one or other of my late papers. 
There is one other bird that I jotted down without careful com¬ 
parison, and that is the Cormorant that winters in this harbour. 
I set it down in my list as Phalacrocorax carbo. Now I discover, on 
close comparison of my specimens with the bird in the f Fa una Ja- 
ponica/that our species is undoubtedly referable to F.filamentosus, 
Schlegel, of Japan. But I see, in the f Fauna Japonica/ P. carbo 
is also noted at Japan and at Kamtschatka, and Mr. Blyth tells 
me it is found in India. I have therefore every reason to suppose 
that it also favours this coast with its visits during winter. Can 
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