. Ornithological miscellany . as the preceding species. In Ussuri country the closely allied species of Chroicocephalus ridihundusis very abundant. It commences to arrive at Lake Hanka about the middleof March; but the principal migration takes place early in April. TheseGulls can be seen, high up in the clouds, flying in a northerly direction insmall flocks, or even singly. On the coasts of the Japanese Sea I often metwith C. ridihundus in October and November, and saw a few wintering birdsin December at St. Olga. 285. Sterna anglica, Mont. Kratchka chernonosaya. Inhabits Mongolia, Ordos, and
. Ornithological miscellany . as the preceding species. In Ussuri country the closely allied species of Chroicocephalus ridihundusis very abundant. It commences to arrive at Lake Hanka about the middleof March; but the principal migration takes place early in April. TheseGulls can be seen, high up in the clouds, flying in a northerly direction insmall flocks, or even singly. On the coasts of the Japanese Sea I often metwith C. ridihundus in October and November, and saw a few wintering birdsin December at St. Olga. 285. Sterna anglica, Mont. Kratchka chernonosaya. Inhabits Mongolia, Ordos, and Ala-shan, and breeds in the two latterlocalities—i. e. in the Hoang-ho valley on Lake Urgun-nor, and in SouthernAla-shan on a small marsh, Bayan-bulik. It does not occur in the Ussuricountry, and has not been observed in China proper. [To BE CONTINUED.] PART XIII. I come from haunts of coot and hern; I make a sudden sparkle out among the fern. To bicker down a valley. Tennyson : The Brook. VOL. III. R wo O oo o o. to o o CO CO o ■2 CO ON THE GENUS PTILOPUS. (PTILONOPUS, Swains.).By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. [Continued from p. 64.] (Plate XCV.)PTILOPUS MUSSCHENBROEKI, Von Rosenberg. Ptilopus musschenbroekii, Rosenb. in litt. Ptilopus viridis, sthjys ffeelvinkiana, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 23 (1871). Ptilopus viridis geelvinkianuSf Schleg. Mus. Col. p. 23 (1873). Ptilopus musschenbroekii, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 195 (1876). The following is a translation of a notice of this bird (Schlegel, Dierk. iv. p. 23, sub Ptilopus viridis, stirps geelvinkiand) -.— M. von Rosenberg sent ys, under the name of Ptilopus musschenbroekii,a fine series of a Ptilopus observed by this naturalist and traveller on severalislands of the great Geelvink Bay—viz. on Mafoor, Meosnum, and Soek(Mysore). This bird recalls perfectly P. viridis, observed on the Ceramgroup, including Buru, Amboina, and the subgroup of Goram. There are,in fact, no oth
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