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Show 342 MR. H. SEEBOHM ON BIRDS [Apr. 15, on the 27th of April and the 1st of May, and there is a fine series in the Pryer collection from Japan. The females agree with the plate in the 'Fauna Japonica' of Muscicapa hylocharis, which appears to me to have been erroneously identified with Xanthopycjia tricolor (Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv. p. 250). The latter species is not represented in the Pryer collection from Japan, nor is it included in the 'Fauna Japonica;' consequently the adult male (stuffed) in the British Museum, labelled " Japan, Leyden Museum," must be regarded with suspicion, and is probably a Chinese example. There is no satisfactory evidence that X. tricolor has ever occurred in Japan, whilst X. narcissina is a common bird there. HEMIXUS CANIPENNIS, sp. n. (Plate XXVII.) Hemixus dorso castaneo, alls cinereo marginatis. In the sixth voulme of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum seven Bulbuls are placed in the genus Hemixus. ABulbul collected by Herr Baun near Foo-chow appears to be perfectly distinct from all of them, having the ashy-grey margins to the outer webs of the quills, which are characteristic of Hemixus cinereus from Sumatra and Malacca, combined with the chestnut-brown back, which has hitherto been regarded as diagnostic of Hemixus castanonotus from Hainan. The Foo-chow species further differs from its Hainan ally in being slightly larger (total length 8| inches, culmen '85, wing 4*1, tail 3-8, tarsus */5); in having the axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with no stains of yellow ; and the breast and flanks grey, with no brown on the former, and no olive on the latter ; and in having the wings and tail-feathers dark grey instead of brown. There can be little doubt that this is the species which was met with by Mons. de la Touche near Foo-chow (Stvan, Ibis, 1887, p. 224). IOLE HOLTI (Swinhoe), Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vi. p. 61. Iole dorso brunneo, gulci cinerea albo striata. Swinhoe's Bulbul has hitherto only been known from the type specimen in the Swinhoe collection from the Pib-liiig hills near Foo-chow, and from an example in the Leyden Museum from Hing-yang (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 409). The occurrence of a third example collected by Herr Baun at Puching on the 10th of May is consequently very interesting. It appears to be a good species. It was originally described as Hgpsipetes holtii (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1871, p. 256), but was afterwards wrongly identified by its discoverer with Hgpsipetes maclellandi (Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 369). POMATORHINUS SWINHOEI, David, Ann. Sc. Nat. xix. Art. 9 (1874). Pomatorhinus pectore nigro striato, tibiis cinereis, superciliis minime albis. Herr Baun obtained an example of this fine species of Scimitar |
