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Show 390 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE H1HDS OF CHINA. [May 2, the latter serves at once to separate it. It is the Skylark Formosa and the Pescadores. 419. GALERIDA CRISTATA (L.). Galerida leaulungensis, Swinh.; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 272,1870, p.Alauda leautungensis, Ibis, 1861, p. 256, 1863, p. 87. Talienwan and Pekin valleys. " Resident and common at the feet of our mountains and in Mongolia" (David). 420. ALAUDULA CHELEENSIS, n. sp. Alauda brachydactyla, Swinh. ; Ibis, 1861, pp. 255, 333. Calandrella pispoletta, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 271. Differs from A. jjispoletta, from the banks of the Volga, in being smaller in all its proportions, in having a more pyrrhuline bill, in its more rufescent plumage, and in having its outer tail-feathers almost entirely white. Talien Bav. " Not rare at Pekin, but particularly abundant in Mongolia" (David). 421. CALANDRELLA BRACHYDACTYLA (Leisl.)? A short-toed Lark with unspotted breast has been received at the Paris Museum from Moupin, which looks like the Indian bird. The second species at Pekin mentioned by Pere David in his Catalogue may also possibly be this species. 422. MELANOCORYPHA MONGOLICA (Pall.); Ibis, 1861, p. 333, 1867, p. 232; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 271. Pekin plains in winter; very common in Mongolia (David). 423. OTOCORYS ALPESTRIS (L.). The Alpine Lark with the yellow throat only comes to the northern parts of the Chelee Province during the great cold (David). It has been sent from Trans-Baikal. 424. OTOCORYS SIBIRICA, Eversm. Otocoris alpestris, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 272. Otocorispenicillata, Ibis, 1863, p. 95; P.Z.S. 1862, p. 318. Differs from the last in having a white face, and in being of a paler rosier hue above. " Sedentary and very abundant in the high regions of Mongolia, whence it descends to Pekin in small numbers. This pretty Lark loves the neighbourhood of Mongol tents in winter; but deserts them in the warm season. It rests on the bare hills, and sings more melodiously than even the Skylark." (David.) 425. PALCEORNIS LATHAMI, Finsch, Papageien, ii. p. 66. Palceornis !, Ibis, 1867, p. 389. Palceornis javanicus, Ibis, 1870, p. 93. Hainan. |