146 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Birds fr dm Hakodadi. 
the underparts than a specimen ( ? , 20th February) I have 
from Shanghai; but one from Amoy (October) is fully as 
much so. 
He sends from the Yokohama market,, procured in January, 
a Gallinago solitaria (Hodgs.), with the note “ Another male, 
12f x 6.” This is much darker and more distinctly banded 
than a male I procured at Shanghai on the 26th February, 
1873; and at first I was half inclined to admit the Japanese 
bird as distinct. But I have a second specimen from Shang¬ 
hai, dated Jan. 3rd, 1874, which comes very close to the Ja¬ 
panese, and seems to show that the two are inseparable. 
From Yokohama a male Rhynchaa bengalensis (L.) is sent. 
145. Numenius PHiEOPUs, L. 
A Hakodadi male of this Curlew, shot on the 24th May, 
1876, with the note of size 17J x 9.” This seems to be of 
the typical European form, and shows that all our China birds, 
even those procured at Shanghai, are of the allied form N. 
uropygialis, Gould. 
An immature Nycticorax griseus from Yeddo, is included; 
and Mr. Blakiston notes that he has also an adult male and 
female; but the locality of the latter not being stated, I do 
not number the species. 
^J.46. Colymbus adamsi, G. R. Gray. 
An immature male of this species bears the date January, 
with the note of measurement, 29J x 13.” The bill is partly 
yellow and partly black. It is otherwise undistinguishable from 
C. glacialis at the same stage. Specimens have been received 
from the North Atlantic with similar bills, and the best authori¬ 
ties are now, I believe, disposed to consider the Great Northern 
Divers of the Atlantic and Pacific to belong to one species. 
Blakiston wrongly identifies his specimen with C. arcticus , L. 
f-147. Anser albifrons. 
This is sent as A. erythropus , L. (625 of my “ List of the 
Birds of China,” P. Z. S. 1871, p. 416); and a note adds that 
he has another female “21^ x 14§.” 
148. Anas boschas, L. 
A male, killed in March, from Hakodadi, and a female 
