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Mr. E. Swinhoe on Birds from Hakodadi. 
travels in that country, and notes its resemblance to L. ocho- 
tensis, from which, he observes, it differs chiefly in wanting 
the golden of the nnderparts. I must not, however, blame 
the Eussian ornithologists for misnaming this bird, as I was 
myself guilty of a similar mistake. With specimens before 
one the mistake could never occur; for the present bird is 
large and pale. I will describe it as the 
Locustella subcertiiiola, sp. nov. 
Form robust; in colour Calamoherpine, but in respect of 
wings, tail, and legs Locustelline ; wing with the 1st quill 
spurious, 2nd notched on its inner web within half an inch of 
its tip, 3rd the longest; tail much graduated, tipped with 
whitish. 
Length about 6 inches; wing 2'7 ; tail 2*3, outer feather 
*68 shorter than centrals. 
Above olive-grey, washed with yellowish brown on the back 
and margins to feathers of wings, more richly on the rump 
and margins of tail-feathers. Feathers of the crown and back 
obscurely centred with brown. Wings brown, the 1st quill 
white on its outer web for the greater part of its length ; tail 
yellower, with faint bars. Throat, belly, and axillaries nearly 
white; sides of neck, breast, flanks, tibials, and under tail- 
coverts ochreous olive-grey, deeper on the last and on the 
sides of the body beneath the wings. Bill of specimen brown 
on upper mandible, yellowish on lower; legs of ditto light 
yellowish brown. 
I have not yet met this species in China; and it is possible 
it may migrate through Hakodadi to Kamtschatka, more to 
the eastward, coming probably from the Philippines. 
10. Black-eyebrowed Eeed-Wren. Calamodyta maackii > 
V. Schrenek. 
BlakistoiPs collection contains a veritable specimen of my 
C. histrigiceps (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 353), which confirms my 
suspicions that my bird is no other than Yon Schrenck’s 
Salicaria ( Calamodyta ) maackii (Amurland, i. p. 370, pi. xii. 
fig. 4-6). I have only procured it at Amoy; but Pere David 
has it from Peking. 
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