158 Mr. R. Swinlioe on Birds from Hakodadi. 
the full plumage of either sex of this species. None of my 
many females favour the idea of the dress of this sex develop¬ 
ing eventually into that of the male, though this may occa¬ 
sionally happen, as with many species of birds. The ordinary 
plumage of the female is as described above. There is also 
nothing in my series of skins (on which the aforesaid gentle¬ 
men based their remarks) to convince me that the male loses 
with age the red of the underparts. I would rather believe, 
with Mr. Blyth, that the South-China bird is intermediate, 
like the Burmese bird (M. affinis ), and is inconstant as to 
the amount of the red on the underparts. In its upper 
plumage the blue is duller tban in the Hakodadi bird, as 1 
have already stated. The Formosan bird is nearly as dull in 
its blue as the Amoy specimens; but the underparts are nearly 
always red throughout. I would preserve the name M. affinis 
for the Chinese bird, and let the Formosan form rank as an 
outlier of the true insular M. solitarius, of which I take the 
Japanese form to be a typical illustration. 
22. Brown-eared Bulbul. Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temm.). 
A female of February. To compare with this I have an 
unsexed bird from Nagasaki (South Japan). The Hakodadi 
specimen is larger, has a shorter bill, longer wings, and larger 
tail, but does not differ in coloration. The describer of this 
species found affinity for it in the American Mocking Thrushes; 
but there can be now no doubt that it has its true allies in 
the Asiatic Tree-Bulbuls [Hypsipetes), a conspecies having 
turned up lately at Ningpo, in China. 
23. Waxwing. Ampelis garrula , L. 
Two specimens, date and sex unmarked. One is smaller 
than the other, has six wax tips, and a narrow tail-band, and 
answers to the figure in YarrelFs f British Birds/ p. 413. 
The other is a much finer bird, has seven large wax tips, a 
broad golden tail-tip, and white margins to the end of the 
inner web of each primary quill, in addition to the terminal 
edge of the outer web. This last, in the three main outer 
feathers, is white, in the rest that succeed a fine golden. This 
seems to be the common species in Japan as in China. 
