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Show 1871.] MK. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 341 Summers at Pekin, and collects in large numbers in September before going south. Wanders in winter to India and Atrica. 21. TlCHORNIS PEKINENSIS. Falco cenchris, var. pekinensis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 442, 448. Breeds on the western hills of Pekin, and assembles in large numbers in September. Mr. Hodgson's drawing of the Nepal bird (in the British Museum) shows that it is this race of Tichornis cenchris that resorts to India. The adult male has all the wing-coverts grey right up to the scapulars ; the inner or short primaries are broadly bordered at their tips with whitish, rufous in the immature ; the white on the under quills is 3\ inches short of their tips. 22. PERNIS APIVORUS (L.); David, Catalogue des oiseaux a Pekin. Pere David notes this as found about Pekin in autumn. Schlegel has it from Japan (Musee des Pays-Bas, Pernes, p. 2). 23. MILVUS GOVINDA, Svkes; Swinh. Zoolog. 1858, p. 6227; Ibis, 1860, p. 47, 1861, pp. 25, 253, 326, 1863, p. 210, 1865, p. 546, 1866, p. 121, 1867, p. 236, 1870, p. 88. Milvus melanotis, Ibis, 1865, p. 348, 1867, pp. 409, 411; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 260. China, Formosa, and Hainan. 24. MILVUS MIGRANS (Bodd.). Milvus ater, Gm. A live specimen of this Kite, said to have been brought from North China, is now living in the Society's gardens. 25. ASTUR PALUMBARIUS (L.) ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 261, 1870, p. 448. I have an adult male from Pekin, which does not differ from home-shot specimens. 26. LOPHOSPIZA TRIVIRGATA (Cuv.); Temm. Pl. Col. 303; Ibis, 1865, p. 547, 1866, p. 395. Formosa. The Malay form. 27. ACCIPITER NISUS (L.); Zoolog. 1858, p. 6227; Ibis, 1861, p. 327, 1870, p. 84 ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 261, 1870, p. 443. Accipiter ? Ibis, 1860, pp. 47, 429, 1863, p. 88. Peking, Amoy, and Canton. 28. ACCIPITER STEVENSONI, Gurney ; Ibis, 1863, p. 447, pl. 11; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 261, 1870, p. 600. Micronisus, sp. ?, Ibis, 1861, p. 25. Accipiter gularis!, Ibis, 1863, p. 89. Canton to Pekin. |