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Show 600 MR. R. SWINHOE ON ASIATIC BIRDS. [June 23, dirty white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers black, the basal half of all, even the centre ones, pure white ; across the forehead a broad band extending back nearly to the middle of the head; loral space and ear-coverts black, this colour extending from the ear-coverts to the shoulder and forming a continuous black band ; throat, cheeks, and whole underparts pure white, bill and feet black. This bird is nearest allied to Lanius minor, which it somewhat resembles from the broad black band on the forehead, but is easily distinguishable from that and other allied species by the long particoloured tail, which never has the outer feathers pure white, but invariably deeply tipped with black, aud also by its black under wing-coverts. This species, like L. pallidirostris, seems to be confined to Northeastern Africa. Lord Walden has a specimen collected by Petherick on the White Nile, while our description is taken from a fine specimen from North-eastern Africa in Sharpe's collection. 5. List of Birds collected by Mr. Cuthbert Collingwood during a Cruise in the China and Japan Seas, with Notes. B y R. S W I N H O E , F.Z.S. Mr. Cuthbert Collingwood, the author of the highly appreciated * Rambles of a Naturalist,' brought home from his cruise in the China and Japan seas a collection of birds, captured for the most part at sea, and submitted them to Mr. Osbert Salvin. The latter gentleman placed them in m y hands, and desired me to draw out a list of them, adding the collector's notes and any remarks I should like to make. This I have done, and now offer the results to this Society. Mr. Collingwood's notes and numbers are given between inverted commas. 1. POLIORNIS POLIOGENYS (Temm. & Schleg. F. J.). " N o . 13. Hawk, male. Eye very black; iris yellow. Near south end of Formosa; seemed to be making a passage; a great many hovering round about the ship. Small crabs in crop. 26th March, 1864. "No. 14. Hawk, female, caught same time as No. 13. Crop full of remains of shells, insects, and grass. Bird remarkably fat." For a similar occurrence of this bird at nearly the same time of year, see ' Ibis,' 1867, p. 412. 2. ACCIPITER STEVENSONI, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 447, pl. 11. " N o 46. Sparrow-hawk, a male. 11th May, 1866. N. lat. 30°50', E. long. 123° 10'. Coast of China, near Saddle Island. Iris crimson; narrow belt outside of it under the eyelid ; eyeball dark. Back slate- |
