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Show 1871.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. 383 353. CORVUS SINENSIS, Gould ; Moore, Cat. Birds E. I. Co. ii. p. 556 ; Ibis, 1862, p. 260, 1863, pp. 95, 383, 1870, p. 348 ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 305. Corvus colonorum, Swinh. Ibis, 1864, p. 427, 1866, pp. 296, 402. Corvus japonicus, Ibis, 1861, p. 337. Corvus japonensis, Ibis, 1862, p. 260. Throughout China ; Formosa ; Hainan. 354. CORVUS TORQUATUS, Lesson, Traite d'Ornith. p. 328; P.Z.S. 1863, p. 305. Corvus pectoralis, Gould, Ibis, 1860, p. 60, 1861, pp. 43, 337, 1862, p. 260, 1867, p. 411, 1870, p. 350. 355. CORVUS CORONE (L.) ; Ibis, 1870, pp. 79, 348. Naochow Island, near Hainan. 356. FRUGILEGUS PASTINATOR. Corvus pastinator, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 1; Ibis, 1861, p. 336 ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 305. Ningpo to Pekin. 357. LYCOS DAURICUS (Pall. Zoogr. t. 15) ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 304. Corvus dauricus, Ibis, 1861, pp. 257, 337. Ningpo to Pekin. I cannot understand Prof. Schlegel (Mus. des Pays-Bas) considering the following species the young of this bird. I have taken this bird from the nest, and found the young beginning life with all the pied characters of the adult. 358. LYCOS NEGLECTUS (Schleg. F. J. t. 40) ; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 305. Corvus neglectus, Ibis, 1861, pp. 259, 337, 1867, p. 227. Ningpo to Pekin. This species is closely related to L. monedula, but has a mnch smaller and slenderer bill, and no grey on the sides of the head and neck. I have procured at Shanghai a hybrid between this and the last. 359. FREGILUS GRACULUS (L.), var. BRACHYPUS. Fregilus graculus, Ibis, 1863, p. 95; P. Z. S. 1862, p. 319, 1863, p. 306, 1870, pp.434, 444. Pekin. The Himalayan bird has much longer feet than ours, and scarcely any purple gloss on the body-plumage. Ours differs also from the European species by its tarsi being a good deal shorter and its toes quite stumpy. A bird from Siberia in the Cambridge Museum agrees with the Chinese bird. 360. EULABES SINENSIS, Swinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 353. South-west China. |