presented by Mr. Hodgson to the British Museum. 317 



P. 6'2. Testa concolor is a mere variety of Pnoepyga squamata 

 (Gould), v. albiventer et rufiventcr, Hodgson. Pnoepyga pusilla, 

 Hodgson, is I think distinct. — Troglodytes sub himalay anus is de- 

 scribed as Tr. nipalensis, Hodgson, in J. A. S. B. xiv. 589. 



P. 63. Orthotomus edela, Temm., v. Edela ruficeps, Lesson, is di- 

 stinct from 0. longicauda v. Bennettii, &c, which together with 0. 

 edela and 0. cineraceus, nobis, occurs at Malacca. 0. septum, Hors- 

 field, is distinct again. 



P. 64. Acrocephalus arundinaceus of India will stand as Acr. brun- 

 nescens (Jerdon), being distinct from the large European species. 



Salicaria affinis, Hodgson, is described as Dumeticola thoracica in 

 J. A. S. B. xiv. 583 ; also Tribura luteoventris, Horornis flaviventris, 

 H. fortipes, Horeites brunnifrons, H. pollicaris and H. schistilata 

 (which I could not distinguish from H. brunnifrons) under Mr. Hodg- 

 son's name Nivicola schistilata. 



P. 65. " Phyllopneuste affinis, Hodgson, Gray, Zool. Misc. 1844 ; 

 Phylloscopus lugubris, Jerdon ; Ph. affinis, Blyth." I presume this 

 to mean Ph. lugubris, nobis (nee Jerdon), J. A. S. B. xii. 968 (1843). 

 Ph. affinis is the Sylvia indica, Jerdon, referred to Motacilla affinis, 

 Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. 576 (1833). — Phyllopneuste xanthoschistos, 

 Hodgson, is Ph. schisticeps, J. A. S. B. xiv. 592 : nearly allied to 

 which is Abrornis poliogenys, nobis. — Ph. magnirostris, nobis (the 

 Ph. trochilus ? Hodg.), I take to be Sylvia javanica of Horsfield. It 

 is commoner on the eastern side of the bay of Bengal. 



P. 66. Phylloscopus nitidus, nobis, Ph. reguloides, nobis, and Ph. 

 modestus (Gould), nobis — vide Mr. Gray's Appendix — are three con- 

 spicuously distinct species, of which Ph. reguloides must now stand 

 as Ph. trochiloides (Sundevall). Ph. flaveolus, Blyth, is no published 

 synonym of mine. — Neornis flavolivacea is described in J. A. S. B. 

 xiv. 590. It is not the Sylvia indica, Jerdon, which is Phylloscopus 

 affinis (Tickell). 



P. 67. Abrornis schisticeps, Hodgson, is identical with Motacilla 

 cantator, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. 576. I have once obtained it near 

 Calcutta. — N.B. Add Acanthiza arrogans, Sundevall, to the syno- 

 nyms of Culicipeta Burkii (Burton). 



Copsychus mindanensis (Gm.), v. Lanius musicus, Raffles, and GryU 

 livora magnirostra, Sw., though very closely allied, seems distinct 

 from Copsychus saularis of India*. 



procured by Hodgson from Behar, and made it into a new genus, Salpornis, 

 and with this he has been describing a Caulodromus Gracei (Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., May 1817), which is my Rimator malacoptilus, J. A. S. B., February 

 1847 ; founded on the identical specimen described by Mr. Gray, which was 

 lent me for the purpose of being described by Mr. Grace, and was so labelled 

 by me when I returned it to him. I labelled the whole of Mr. Grace's 

 collection for him, with a view to prevent doubles emplois. I have now 

 three distinct and well-marked Himalayan species of true Certhia, viz. 

 C. himalayana, Vigors, vel asiatica, Swainson, with a very distinctly-banded 

 tail, from the Deyra Doon ; C. nipalensis, Hodgson, from Nepal ; and C. 

 discolor, nobis, common about Darjeeling. That of Gray's list will doubt- 

 less be C. nipalensis. 



* In a letter recently received from Dr. Horsfield, that gentleman re- 



