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Carabus violaceus sollicitans subsp. uov. 



Type: ?. Ashridge near Triug, 8. viii. 1900, caught by Arthur Goodson; 

 in my collection. 



In addition to the type I have examined, specimens from Ashburne in 

 Derbyshire (C. F. R. Jourdain), Oxford (Shipp), Cowley in Oxfordshire (Shipp), 

 Knighton, Colchester, Dursley (Shipp), Wilstone near Triug (A. Goodson), Eustou 

 (Karl Jordan), Wells in Somerset, and the Forth district in Scotland (W. Eagle 

 Clark). All these examples showed the same characters. 



MISCELLANEA ORNITHOLOGICA. 



CRITICAL, NOMENCLATORIAL, AND OTHER NOTES, MOSTLY ON 

 PALAEARCTIC BIRDS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



PART IV.* 



MUSCICAPA MUGIMAKI Temm. 



UNFORTUNATELY, ornithologists have universally employed the specific name 

 luteola for a well-known Flycatcher nesting in East Siberia, from the mouth 

 of the Amur to Lake Baikal. Evidently nobody took the trouble to examine 

 critically the original description of Muscicapa luteola Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso— Asiat. 

 i. p. 470), or he would have seen that the bird described there is the Red-breasted 

 Flycatcher, or its Siberian representative, Muscicapa parva albicilla. The bird 

 hitherto known as M. luteola must henceforth be called M. mugimaki Temm. (cf. 

 Vogel pal. Fauna, i. pp. 487, 402). 



Notes on the genera CRYPTOLOPHA, ABRORNIS, TICKELLIA and 



PHYLLOSCOPUS. 



Though always inclined to " lump" genera — the use of genera being to enable 

 us to find our way through the otherwise chaotic mass of forms, but not to make 

 our studies more iutricate and difficult — I believe that we are justified in separating 

 the genera Crgptolopha and Abrornis ; these two genera are easily distinguished by 

 their tails, Crgptolopha having twelve rectrices, Abrornis only ten. Moreover, the 

 bill in Abrornis is comparatively much shorter and wider, the rictal bristles are 

 longer and stronger, and its members lay — as far as it is known— spotted eggs, 

 while the known eggs of the species of Crgptolopha are white, without spots. 

 Tickellia should also be separated from Abrornis, with which it agrees iu having 

 only ten rectrices. The bill is, however, very different, being very broad and bluntly 

 pointed, and the tail-feathers are long and narrow. Only one species, however, 

 belongs to the genus Tickellia — i.e. T. hodgsoni. Dr. Biauehi (iu a review of the 

 genera Crgptolopha, Abrornis, and Tickellia in the Bull. Acad. Tmpe'r. Sci. 

 Petersburg, ser. v. vol. xxiii. p. 65) includes in the genus Tickellia also Abrornis 



* For Part I. see Nov. Zool. 1904, pp. 136-60 ; for Part II., Nov. Zool. 1905, pp. 407-503 ; for Part III., 

 Nov. ZooL 1906, pp. 386-105. 



