of Naumann's ' Vogel Deutsclilands/ 55 



Dr. Cabanis, iu 1851, exhibited to the meeting of German orni- 

 thologists held at Berlin a pair, the female of which had been 

 taken by a bird-catcher near that capital ; he also stated (Nau- 

 mannia, 1852, pt. i. p. 5) that three examples had been killed 

 in Heligoland, and that two others obtained in Dalmatia were 

 then at Vienna. The same talented ornithologist about the 

 same time devised a new genus, Phyllohasileus, for its reception, 

 and subsequently, in 1853, published (Journ. f. Orn. i. p. 81) 

 the admirable paper to which reference has already been made. 

 Herein the history of the species is ably summed up, and two 

 characteristic figures by Naumann himself are appended; but, 

 better still, the author identifies it with the " Yellow-browed 

 Warbler " of Latham (Synopsis, ii. 2. p. 459), which that learned 

 writer described so long ago as 1783, from an example furnished 

 to him by the illustrious Pennant. This description had served 

 as the foundation of Gmelin's Motacilla superciliosa in 1786 

 (Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2. p. 975) ; and thus we arrive at what must 

 be considered in future as its rightful specific appellation, as well 

 as an older English name, the latter fortunately more applicable 

 to it than that applied by Mr. Gould some fifty years later. 

 About the same time as Dr. Cabanis' paper (namely in 1853) 

 appeared the ornithological portion of the results of Dr. von Mid- 

 dendorff's travels, wherein (Sibir. Reise, ii. pt. 2. p. 183) this bird 

 is included as Sylvia proregulus ; and the variations occasioned by 

 sex, age, or other causes, in no less than thirteen examples ob- 

 tained on the shores of the Sea of Ochotsk, are duly commented 

 on. The following year (1854) Mr. F. Moore (Cat. B. Mus. 

 H. E. I. C. p. 343) claimed for the species another synonym, 

 namely Phyllopneuste nitidus of Mr. Blyth in 1842 (J. A. S. B. 

 xii. pt. 2. p. 965). In 1857 the anonymous author — if indeed 

 he may be so regarded, when east of the Red Sea there is but a 

 single pen that could have written the article — of "British Birds 

 in India'' in the ' Calcutta Review' (no. 55. p. 174) states that this 

 bird, under the appellation of Reguloides proregulus, is, with 

 several other allied species, common in Bengal. In 1858 Mr. 



hides (J. A. S. B. xi. p. 291), which that gentleman states (Ann. N, H. xx. 

 p. 384) is a species identical with Professor Sundevall's previously described 

 Acanthiza trochiloides (Ann. N. H. xviii. p. 262). * 



