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Show 352 MK. R. SWINHOE ON T H E BIRDS OK CHINA. [May 2, 108. RHOPOPHILUS PEKINENSIS, Swinh. Ibis, 1868, p. 62; P.Z.S. 1870, pp. 436, 443. Garrulax no. 175, David's Catalogue. Pekin. 109. CISTICOLA SCHOENICOLA, Bp. ; Ibis, 1863, p. 303, 1870, p. 345 ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 295. Cisticola tintinnabulans, Swinh. Ibis, I860, pp. 51, 131. Calamanthella tintinnabulans, Swinh. Journ. North China Asiatic Society, vol. ii. M a y 1859 ; Ibis, 1860, pp. 186, 360, 1861, p. 32. Cisticola cursitans, Ibis, 1861, p. 329. Throughout China, Hainan, and Formosa. 110. CISTICOLA VOLITANS, Swinh. North China Asiat. Soc. May, 1859 ; Ibis, 1860, pp. 186, 360, 1863, p. 304. North Formosa. 111. CISTICOLA MELANOCEPHALA, Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 212. Procured by Dr. Anderson at Sonda (Yunnan). 112. CALAMODYTA ORIENTALIS (Temm. et Schleg.). Calamoherpe orientalis, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 305 ; P. Z. S. p. 293, 1870, p. 427- Acrocephalus magnirostris, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 51, 1861, pp, 32, 329. Canton to Shanghai in summer. Pere David notes that it passes Pekin in autumn. Mr. Wallace procured the species in Batchian, Morty, and Lombock. 113. CALAMODYTA FASCIOLATUS (G. R. Gr.). Acrocephalus fasciolatus, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 349. Calamoherpe subfiavescens, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 243. M . J. Verreaux received a specimen of this bird from the Lake- Baikal region ; and as it was impossible to suppose that it could be referred to a Moluccan species, and there was nothing else like it, Mr. D. G. Elliot described it as a new species. Lord Walden first pointed out its identity with the Batchian species. In passing to and from its summer quarters it must go through China; and so I introduce it into the China List, though it has not actually been obtained in China. 114. CALAMODYTA INSULARIS. Acrocephalus insularis, Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 350. Calamoherpefumigata, Swinhoe, P.Z. S. 1863, pp. 91, 293. The close affinity of this bird to the last led me to compare it with the second Moluccan species, and I was delighted to find it the same. It comes to Amoy in May in large numbers, and disappears again almost immediately, probably into the interior of China or |