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Show 402 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. [May 2, it has numerous bands across the breast; and its upper parts rufous. I propose to separate it under the name of its discoverer. 513. HEMIPODIUS VICIARIUS, n. sp. Turnixjondera, Hodgs.?; Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 50. Turnix dussumieri, Ibis, 1861, p. 341. Turnix maculosa, Ibis, 1866, p. 131; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 308, 1870, p. 442. The Indian species of this group is the Turnix jondera, Hodgs., figured in Gray and Mitchell's ' Genera of Birds' (T. dussumieri, Jerd. B. of India, iii. p. 599); and a similar but larger bird is found in Burmah (T. blanfordi, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 80). The latter from its size (wing 4 inches) seems to answer to the original Hemipodius maculosus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. iii. p. 631, 1815 (maculatus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. 1834, iv. p. 51, pl. 217), the locality of which is doubtfully given as New Holland. Our bird, which ranges from Canton to Pekin, differs from these in wanting the red collar and the median stripe on the crown. The feathers on the crown are black margined with reddish brown, the breast is bright buff; the feathers of the back and rump are blotched and finely waved with black, and most of them have long ochreous spots on their margins. It is about the size of T. blanfordi, and in general plumage pretty similar. Irides white. Upper mandible brown ; lower mandible and legs ochreous yellow. The females are rather larger than the males, but do not seem to differ in plumage. The gizzard of a female was large and heart-shaped ; caeca long and bulging ; its trachea swollen above the junction with the bronchi. 514. OTIS TARDA, L.; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 308. " Tungusis Dauuriee Todok," Pallas, Zoogr. ii. p. 97. Shanghai and Hankow in winter. " Pekin in winter" (David). I have a female specimen from Shanghai, which is smaller than the ordinary European bird, and more broadly banded with black on the upper parts. Pere David speaks of a smaller Bustard, called by the Chinese at Pekin " Kepoo." He saw a flock of them in Mongolia (Catalogue des Oiseaux a Pekin). 515. GRUS CINEREA, Bechst.; Ibis, 1861, p. 409, 1870, p. 362; P. Z. S. 1863, p. 308; Zoologist, 1861, p. 7507. South China in winter. Passes over the Pekin plain in September and April; commoner towards Mongolia (David). 516. GRUS MONACHUS, Temm.; Ibis, 1867, p. 413 ; P. Z.S. 1863, p. 309. Shanghai market in winter. 517. GRUS LEUCAUCHEN, Temm. Passes in small numbers along the mountains of Seuen-hwa-foo (David). |