152 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi . 
kindly consented to figure the species from North China on the 
same plate (PL VII. fig. 2). The characters of this are its 
small size, and vjhite upper tail-coverts. The latter, which it 
has in common with no other species, suffices to convince me 
that our bird is not the C. cashmiriensis > Gould, which it re¬ 
sembles in many respects. As was to be expected, ours proves 
to be the Martin that visits Siberia in summer, and is minutely 
described by Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 533) as Hirundo 
lagopoda, in the belief that, from the difference in structure of 
its nest, the Siberian bird ought to be thoroughly compared 
with the European. I named the Chinese bird C. whitelyi in 
P. Z. S. 1862, p. 320; but 1 have only to quote from Pallas's 
description of the Daurian bird the following to show that it 
is the same as ours :—Subtus avis tota nivei candoris; sub- 
caudales, itemque dorsum posticum, uropygium tectricesque 
caudce nivese, rhachibus plumarum tenuissime fuseis, in qui- 
busdam vix conspicue." 
Mr. Fleming's specimen from near Pekin (figured in the 
plate) is the only one of this species from China that I have ever 
handled ; and the only time I ever saw the bird alive was on the 
8th April, 1869, when, on some hills near the river Yangtsze, 
about 1000 miles up its course, a pair of white-rnmped Martins 
flew about over the heads of our party, in company with many 
Daurian and a few Common Swallows. 
4. King of the Shrimps. Alcedo bengalensis , GmeL 
A young male, with both mandibles of bill blackish and the 
breast-feathers tipped with dull bluish green. 
5. European Nuthatch. Sitta europcea , L. 
The species with white underparts. A specimen shot in 
March. 
6. Tree-creeper. Certhia familiaris, L. 
The pale race of Amoorland, with a large whitish spot on 
each feather of the crown and back. A specimen shot in 
February. 
7. Japanese Wren. Troglodytes fumigatus } Temm. Man. 
d'Orn. vol. iii. p. 161. 
