446 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefoo. 
This was probably the offspring of a late last year's nest; but it 
goes to show that males as well as females of this species breed 
in immature plumage. I procured a nestling on the 12th 
July. This has a brownish bill, with light leaden-coloured 
legs and claws; the underparts yellowish white, with black- 
spots on the breast and belly. Back and crown green, with 
blackish centres to the feathers, a yellowish band stretching 
across the occiput. Wing-coverts dark green on outer webs, 
black on inner with yellowish tips; quills black edged whitish, 
their coverts with dark green and tipped with yellow; secon¬ 
daries black on inner webs, and along inner half of outer webs. 
Tail-coverts greenish yellow, rectrices black, with large yellow 
terminal spots. On the 15th September I obtained a pair of 
adults. The female is rather larger than the male, and can 
at once be distinguished by her greenish mantle. 
41. Nymph Ground-Thrush. Pitta nympha 3 T. & S. Faun. 
J apon. 
On the 13th August a Pitta was brought to me in a cage. 
It was said to have come from Yeu-chow Foo in this province, 
and had evidently been long in a cage, as the lower mandible 
had outgrown the upper, and the bird had all the appearance 
of a prisoner. It answered fairly to the description of P. 
nympha in the f Fauna Japonica,' which was based on a drawing 
taken by a Japanese artist at Nagasaki from a bird said to 
have been brought from Corea. I announced this discovery 
to the Secretary of the Zoological Society; and my note on the 
subject was published in P. Z. S. 1873, p. 730. It devoured 
grasshoppers greedily, and had a wailing cry like that of a 
puppy dog in distress. On the 20th August it died, and 
proved to be a male. 
That this bird is P. nympha there cannot be a shadow of a 
doubt, answering as completely as it does to the figure and 
description of that species in the f Fauna Japonica.' Its sole 
difference is in the want of the black chin; but this addition 
in the plate is evidently an artistic error. Its nearest ally is 
my P. oreas , from Formosa, from which it chiefly differs in 
being rather paler in the ground-colour of the underparts, and 
