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the same name to another species — a fact which Blyth did not 

 know or did not remember at the time. 



" Scuvicola leucomela, Pall, apud Dresser " means that, in my 

 opinion, Dresser was in error when he identified the species in ques- 

 tion with the species to which Pallas gave the above-mentioned 

 name. 



" Sylvia sa7xla, Marmora fide Tomm." means that Temminck 

 ascribes this name to Marmora, but that I have been unable to 

 find any publication in which this name was given by Marmora. 



The Ibllowiug contractions are used in the list of specimens : — 



« [C] " means " CoUected by;" 



" [P.] " means " Presented by ;" 



" [E.] " means " Eeceived in exchange from." 



The thanks of the author are due to various gentlemen for the 

 loan of specimens, many of them types, without which it would 

 have been impossible to work out this obscure group satisfactorily — - 

 particularly to George N. Lawrence, Esq., Canon Tristram, Dr. 

 Sclater, 0. Salvin, Esq., P. D. Godman, Esq., Captain Wardlaw 

 Piamsay, Allan Hume, Esq., Dr. Scully, W. T. Blanford, Esq., 

 Captain Shelley, H. E. Dresser, Esq., W. E. Brooks, Esq., John 

 Gould, Esq., E. AV. H. Holdsworth, Esq., and Howard Saunders, Esq. 



The author also wishes to record his especial thanks to Mr. E. 

 Bowdler Sharpe for innumerable acts of courtesy in giving him 

 assistance, frequently at considerable personal inconvenience ; and 

 also to acknowledge the obligations he is under for the facilities 

 which have been so generously afibrdcd him of examining types 

 and other specimens in the Museums at Cambridge, Berlin, Frank- 

 fort, Bremen, Hamburg, Leyden, Paris, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, 

 Moscow, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. 



HENRY SEEBOHM. 



British Museum, 

 Nov. 1, 1880. 



