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between Takoo and Peking, North China. 
P. sylvicultrix, mihi, so common at certain seasons at Amoy; but 
on handling it, I at once observed the 1st primary, quite small 
in P. sylvicultrix, to be much larger in this species. The tarsus 
was furthermore, strange to say, of a leaden colour, as in the 
Paridce, though the feet were quite phylloscopine. I extract my 
notes taken while the bird was fresh. 
6. Length 4^ in.; wing 2^, 1st primary 6 T L; tail 1 T 8 ^; 
tarsus Bill: upper mandible brown, lower mandible and 
rictus clear ochre. Legs leaden grey, bases of toes and claws 
pale yellowish. This species resembles much P. sylvicultrix, 
but is distinguishable at once by its large 1st primary, the grey 
legs, and the oehreous under-mandible. In this last peculiarity 
it resembles P. coronatus; but is a smaller species, and is totally 
destitute of the pale yellowish stripe, flanked by a brown one on 
each side, that crowns the head of the Japanese bird. 
36. Bed-flanked White-eye. Zosterops japonicus, Temm. 
& Sclil. 
I saw this bird only once, and that in a cage at Tientsin, and 
was surprised to find how completely it differed from the Southern- 
Chinese species, to which I had before ascribed the same name. 
Schlegel was quite right in the ‘ Fauna Japonica 9 in stating that 
this species has no 1st primary, and that the feathers of the 
flanks are of a ruddy rust-colour, though in the colour of the 
legs and beak he was misinformed. These, as in the southern 
species, are leaden-coloured. The coloured plate, which his son 
at Amoy has, misled me; as the colours, somewhat carelessly put 
on, do not show in half-brilliant-enough tints the red patch on 
each side that marks the species. It will not do to call the other 
bird Z. sinensis, as it is only a Southern-Chinese form, being 
generally resident in the places where it is found. Let it stand, 
then, as Z. simplex. 
37. Marsh Tit. Parus palustris, L. 
It is surely remarkable that this European species should be 
the only common bird of the genus in the Peiho Plain. I have 
four skins, and I can discover no specific distinction; perhaps 
Mr. Sclater may be more successful. Wherever trees abounded, 
the chirp of this species was sure to be heard. They were rather 
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