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Lord W:il(len romarks, " Wht-tlier or not specifically distinct from M. sulpliurea 

 of Europe, this bird must take the title of melanope, Pallas." 



Vieill. 



Arakan. Karcn-ni. Tcnasserim. 

 Arakan. Pe^u. Tcnasserim. 

 Southern Tcuasserim. 



Southern Tcnasserim. 



Europe. Asia. Africa. America. 



CoKYDAI.I.A T?ICnAKI)I, 



C. KrFi-LA, Vieill. 



C. Malavexsis, Eyton. 



A rare straggler from the south. 



C. striolata, Blyth. 



A rare straggler from the south. 



BUDYTES vraiDis, Gmcl. 

 B. cincreDcapilla, Savi. 

 B. neifhcta, Jordon. 

 B. flara, Jerdon. 

 B. mehtnocephala, Sykes. 

 B. duhius, ilodg. 

 B. full- i venter, Hodg. 

 B. schidicej>s, Hodg. 



So widely spread a species is bound to exhibit numerous geogi-aphical variations 

 (races), and we accordingly have {JUe Brooke) B. flava over all the Old AVorkl 

 and the northern half of the New. B. cinereocephala and B. melanocephala over 

 Eastern Europe, India and China. 



Hodgson's species are of course Himalayan. 



B. CAicAEAxrs, Hodg. Pahpoon. 



LmoNrDEOMUs rxcicus. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. China. 



Andamans. 



Pipits. 



PiPASTES MACULATUS, Hodg. 



Arakan. Karen-ni up to 5000 feet. 



Tcnasserim. 

 Pegu. 

 Pegu. 



ornithologists decline to admit the 



P. AGiLis, Sykes. 



P. PLITJIATUS, MiiU. 



Lord Walden remarks: "Some eminent 

 Bpecific distinction of A. agilis, A. maculatus, and the common European Tree Pipit. 

 In the H. List, No. 3640, L. S. Midler's title ot pJumatus is adopted for the European 

 bird. But as Linnceus published the twelfth ctlition of the Systema ten years before 

 L. S. Miillcr bestowed the title cited, it is more in accordance with accepted practice 

 to prefer the Linna?an title." 



CoKYDALLA lliCHAEDi, Yicill. Andamaus (Port Blair). 



Ajjihts CEEVixrs, Pall. Tenasserim. Andamans. Nicobars. 



Family Ampelidae. 



" In this, the last Dentirostral family, we have an assemblage of birds, con- 

 siderably varied in their structure and colouration ; but as a general rule of brighter 

 and richer plumage than the majority of dentirostral birds." — Jerdon. 



Sul-family LEIOTEICniN.a:. 

 This sub-family embraces the Blue Thrush-tits {Cochoincc), the Hill-tits 

 {Lciotrichinai), and the Flower- peckers {Ixulince). 



Cocno.A PUKPITEEA, Hodg. Sikkim, 8000. Moolcyit over 5000. 



PTERrrniirs jeralatus, TickcU. Moolcyit, Karcn-ni at -1000 feet. 



P. MELANOTis, Hodg. Toung-ngoo (/(/(' Blyth). 



P. iN'TERJiEDius, Humc. Moolcyit. 



Hume (jucstions if Blyth discriminated mdanotis from intermedius, which is not 

 impossible, if the one is (as is most probable) a mere local race of the other. 



In describing I'. [Allotrius) intermedius, Hume remarks : "I am afraid a great 



