92 Extracfs from Correspondence, Announcements, l^c. 



of it, Emheriza per sonata of Swinhoe {melanops, nobis), accord- 

 ing to Bonaparte's Conspectus, should rather be the species 

 following E. personata in that work, i. e. E. spodocephala, Pallas. 

 — 'Ibis,U861, p.235, jFfl/co sacer. May not the specimen assigned 

 to Nepal have been a trained bird, brought across the Himalaya ? 

 — P. 226, Milvus affinis. I doubt this being Indian. — P. 240, 

 Knot : ' seen near Cawnpore.' Once only obtained by Jerdon, and 

 once by myself. — P. 245, Hei^odias melanopus. We have it from 

 Mergui. For ' breast ' read ' nape.' — P. 246. By Larus 7-idibun- 

 dus, L. briinneicephalus is probably meant, L. ridihundus being 

 here much more rare. L. minutus is new to the Indian fauna. 

 Ditto Anser minutus. Graculus pygmcBus should be G.javanicus. 

 — P. 253, Milvus govinda. I think M. melanotis is distinct. — 

 P. 259. Cuculus striatus cannot be this species, as the note is said to 

 resemble that of C. canorus. — P. 263. Phal. filamentosus is proba- 

 bly the species which I have hitherto termed sinensis. — Errata : 

 p. 269, 1. 23, for 'greater' read 'gaunt'; line 27, for ' being only' 

 read 'the lungs only of.' — Several of Mr. Newton's birds from 

 Mauritius (p. 271 et seq.) were introduced there by the French 

 along with the Cervus rusa of Java and the Lepus niyricollis of 

 S. India and Ceylon (probably also introduced into Java, where 

 it is called L. melananchen , Temni.), e. g. Acridotheres tristis, 

 Estrelda astrild, Geopelia striata, Francolinus madagascariensis 

 (qu. Fr. sinensis, which we have as the ' Pintado Partridge ' from 

 the ^IdiXxviim^), P. ponticerianus, and Syncecus sinensis. — P. 279, 

 What is Turdus pelodes ? A bird sent me by Swinhoe as T. 

 cardis $ equals my T. dissimilis, which I once thought was the 

 male of T. unicolor. What is Hodgson's T. naumanni ? Once 

 only obtained, I think ; as T. pilaris once was at Saharunpur. 

 T. iliacus visits Kohat in large flocks. — P. 297. The Scandinavian 

 Orites caudatus is fully as different from that of Britain, &o., as 

 Sitta europcea (v. uralensis) from S. ccesia ; but how about the 

 Himalayan S. cinnamomeiventris ? As for the union of the Cross- 

 bills, there is an enormous difference between Loxia pytiopsit- 

 tucus and the diminutive L. himalayana, L. curvirostra being 

 intermediate. Circus pallidus is nearer to C. cyaneus than to 

 C. cineraceus. — P. 259, Cohnnba lencozonura. Is not this C. 

 rupestris (Pallas) ? 



