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this species, and collected for mc in Bhawulpoor by Captain 

 Marshal], had been correctly identified. M. Verreaux has kindly 

 compared them with specimens from Abyssinia and Egypt, and 

 can discover, he says, no difference. 



t 583 ter. Iduna salicaria, Pall., nee L. Sylvia caligata, 

 Licht. Lusciola caligata, Keys, et Bl. Iduna caligata, Gr., Bon. 

 Consp. Av. p. 295. 



This is another novelty to our Indian avifauna. I picked it 

 out as unlike any thing I had seen, and forwarded it to M. Ver- 

 reaux. Unfortunately the specimen has not been returned to 

 me ; and therefore I cannot now be certain out of which of two 

 large collections, one made in the interior of the Himalayas 

 and the other in Western India, it was derived. M, Verreaux 

 says, "After most careful comparison with several specimens 

 from Siberia and Dauria, I cannot see that your bird differs 

 from them in any respect. It is the Iduna salicaria." 



Since writing the above, I have heard that Mr. Tristram iden- 

 tifies this species with Phyllupneuste rama. In this he may be 

 correct ; but I beg to point out that the bird sent by me to M. 

 Verreaux was not P. rama, and that both he and I have for years 

 been so thoroughly familiar with this latter species that any mis- 

 take on this point is impossible. Mr. Tristram goes, I believe, 

 by the British-Museum specimen of /. scita. Who knows that 

 this specimen is correctly named*? If it be so, how can M. 

 Verreaux have named an altogether different species S. caligata 

 vel scita ? Where is the type specimen of /. scita ? This seems 

 to be a matter worthy of further inquiry. 



593. BUDYTES VIRIDIS. 



In a late number of ' The Ibis ' I expressed my conviction 

 that B. melanucephalus and B. cinereocapillus were merely forms 

 of this species. I had sent home long previously several speci- 

 mens of our Indian birds to M. Verreaux with the view of 

 ascertaining whether what I called jB. cinereocapillus and B. me- 

 lanocephalus were really identical with the European forms to 



[* Cf. Gray, Hand-List, p. 209, wJiere all the above names are placed 

 as synonyms of I. caliyata, Liclit. ; and the only localities cited are C. and 

 S.E. Europe, Russia, Siberia. — Ed.] 



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