32 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



1864, p. 249) should be referred*. Mr. Gould (B. G. B. 

 pt. iii.) remarks of A. pratensis, " I question whether it is ever 

 found in India^ and I fear I must have misled Mr. Yarrell 

 when I stated that I had seen specimens from thence. Tem- 

 minck," he adds, " includes it in his catalogue of the birds of 

 Japan ; but the Japanese bird is now recognized as distinct, and 

 is called A. japonicus." M. Anatole de Uemidoff, in his 

 ^Voyage dansla Russie Meridionale^ (p. 159), does not consider 

 A. cervinus to be sufficiently distinct from A. pratensis — a 

 course in which he is followed by several Russian and German 

 ornithologists {cf. Eversmann, Bull. Mosc. 1850, ii. p. 570; 

 J. f. 0. 1853, p. 289, and Passler, J. f. 0. 1859, p. 464)! I 

 have recently seen undoubted specimens of Anthus pratensis from 

 North-western Indiaf. 



Of the genera of Pipits recognized by Dr. Jerdon, Pipastes 

 and Anthus are birds which have a double moult, while Cory- 

 dalla and Agrodroma, if not also Heterura, have but a single 

 moult; and the young of Corydalla, if not also Agrodroma, 

 have pale margins to the upper plumage, like young Larks, but 

 do not, like the latter, shed the primaries and rectrices at the 

 first moult. These are short and of a nestling character in 

 young Larks, not so in the young Corydalla. 



608. CocHOA viRJDis, Hodgson ; Gray and Mitchell, 111. 

 Gen. Birds, pi. 68. 



A Javan species of this genus exists in Pteruthius azureus, 

 Temm. PI. Col. 274. 



609. Pteruthius erythropterus. 



A closely allied species to this was obtained by Col. Tickell 

 upon Moule-yit Mountain, Tenasserim, P. ceralatus, Tickell 

 (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 267). 



* In Mr. Sperling's notice (Ibis, 1864, p. 279), under the head of A. 

 cervinus the name A. prntemis should surely be substituted for A. 

 arhoreus. 



f I allow this passage to stand as it was written ; but Mr. Gould has 

 recently shown me that the ordinary Himalayan species A. rosaceics, 

 IIod"-son, with yellow axillaries, is distinct from that commonly referred 

 to A. cervinus, which latter should probably be erased from the Indian 

 list. 



