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S 76. Urubitinga anthracina, sp. 263. 
Duenas, July, changing from immature to adult plumage. 
Fam. COLUMBIDiE. 
/ 77. Chamcepelia passerina : sp. 313. 
I have found nests of this bird both on the ground and ele¬ 
vated a few feet above it. 
/ 78. Scardafella inca. Bp. Consp. ii. p. 85. 
Duenas, July 19t.h, <3 . 
This is the first and only specimen I have met with of this 
Ground-dove at Duenas. On the coast it is numerous, resembling 
in its habits the common species of this district, Chamcepelia 
passer ina. 
Fam. ARDEIDiE. 
/ 
v/ 79. Butorides virescens , sp. 333. 
I have noticed two other species of Heron about the Lake of 
Duenas, but this is the commonest. 
Fam. RALLIDiE. 
y/' 80. Fulica americana (6m.), sp. 361. 
A young bird in its first dress. The Coot of the Lake of 
Duenas appears to be the F. americana , after all, as I have no¬ 
ticed that the old bird has a spot of the colour of dried blood 
above the white frontal plate. In the young bird the bill is 
vermilion-red with a lighter spot next to the white point on the 
upper mandible. Over the eye is blue, the colour of the eye-ball 
evidently showing through. The legs are brown with a faint cast 
of green.—O. S. 
VI .—The Ornithology of Amoy (China). By Robert Swinhoe, 
of H. M. Consular Service. 
As I am about to leave Amoy for a place further down the coast, 
a short notice of the species of birds collected by me on this 
island and its immediate vicinity during a five years’ sojourn 
would perhaps find an acceptable place in ' The Ibis/ 
The position of Amoy and its relative bearings to the mam- 
