on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' 365 



336. DicyT:uM coccineum (Scopoli); Gould, B. As. pt. vi. pi. ; 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219. 



I observed this species in remarkable abundance in the 

 vicinity of Mergui Station. Its nest is described by Messrs. 

 Mottley and Dillvvyn in their ' Contributions to the Natural 

 History of Labuan' (p. 18). 



240. PiPRISOMA AGILE. 



This species might very well be referred to Prionochilus, 

 bearing the same relationship to the bright-coloured Malayan 

 species that Dicceum cuncolor and D. minimum bear to the 

 vividly-coloured species of their genus. Capt. Beavan has lately 

 obtained the nest, which he mentions as a very interesting 

 structure. Apparently a second Indian — or rather Cingalese — 

 species of Pi'ionochilus exists in the Pardalotus pijjra, Lesson 

 (Cent. Zool. pi. 26.) Neither Prionochilus nor Pachysoma, I 

 think with Mr. Wallace, belong to the Dicceum series, but arc 

 more akin to the Australian form Pardalotus. 



241. Myzanthe ignipectus, Hodgs. ; Gould, B. As. pt. vi. 

 pi. 



245. Certhia discolor. 



Accoi-ding to Dr. Jerdon, this species " makes the neai'cst 

 approach to C. familiaris of Europe." I do not concur in this 

 statement. C. himalayana is the Eastern representative of C. 

 familiaris, while C. nipalensis and C. discolor have conspicuously 

 shorter bills and longer tails. An American species which 

 comes very near to C. himalayana is C. mexicana, Gloger (Baird, 

 B. Am. pi. 83. fig. 2). It is remarkable that C. himalayana 

 likewise occurs in Afghanistjiu, from which direction it may 

 have reached and spread over the North-western Himalaya. 



246. Salpornis spilonotus (Franklin) ; Gray aud Mitchell, 

 111. Gen. Birds, pi. 44. f. 1. 



I have given elsewhere a more detailed description (Ibis, 

 1865, p. 48). Mr. G. R. Gray (Br. Mus. Cat. Nipal) places 

 Certhia himalayana, Yigovs [C. asiatica, Swains.), as synonymous 

 with C. spilonota, Franklin, and gives Nipal as the habitat ! 

 Neither of these species is known to inhabit Nipal j and Mr. 



