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Show 1873.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE BIRDS. 687 whitish, clouded with greenish ochraceous, and crossed by lilacine bands ; ocelli and markings as in male. Expanse of wings 6* 3^ inches, $ 3 inches 11 lines. Inhabits Queensland. Genus ATELLA. A T E L L A BOWDENIA, n. sp. Allied to A. egista and A. sinha, form of the latter, but coloured more as in the former, from which it differs above in the narrower marginal brown border, the indistinctness of the submarginal lunules of front wings, the absence of the discal series in hind wings, of the discal spots in all the wings, the extension of the disco-costal maculate band of front wings. Wings below brighter ochraceous, the central and submarginal lunated silvery bands much narrower than in A. egista; discal series of black spots very minute; brown discal lunules obsolete. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. Inhabits the Friendly Islands. Family HESPERIDJE. Subfamily PAMPHILINJE. Genus PAMPHILA. P A M P H I L A FLOSSITES, n. sp. Wings above olive-brown, the basal third and body with bright metallic green shot; fringe dirty whitish; front wings with three dirty white spots placed obliquely below median branches. Wings below ochraceous; front wings with interno-basal half black, and angle brown ; white spots of upperside clear, united, increasing in width downwards ; body whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. Ega (Bates). 2. O n the Long-tailed Jay of Northern China, with further Notes on Chinese Ornithology. By R O B E R T S W I N H O E, F.Z.S., H.M. Consul at Chefoo. [Received July 30, 1873.] My first and only interview with the Long-tailed Jay of Northern China I reported in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1870, p. 448. Its notes and habits seemed very similar to those of the bird of the south ; and I was not successful in procuring specimens. Pere David had procured it, and I suppose has sent it to Paris; but if so, it has been accepted there as of the ordinary species. A kind friend at Pekin has at last sent me a specimen; and I think those that will read the following description will allow that our Urocissa of the north is distinct from the species of the south and west. |
