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XLIX. — A few Ornithological Notes and Corrections. 

 By W. E. Brooks. 



Phylloscopus viridanus. 



Dr. SevertzofF says {antea, p. 81) that Turkestan examples 

 of this bird differ much in the form of the bill ; and he de- 

 scribes two varieties as P. intermedia and P. hypolania. It 

 is strange that Dr. Sevcrtzoff should find such variation ; for 

 in India we find the characteristics of this species remark- 

 ably constant. It is probable that Dr. Sevcrtzoff had other 

 species mixed with his P. viridanus. The female of P. magni- 

 rostris is difficult to separate from that of P. viridanus. 



Anthus maculatus, Hodgson. 



Dr. Sevcrtzoff says {antea, p. 180), "The form known as 

 Anthus agilis, Sykes, was also found in 1874 in the moun- 

 tains east of Kuldja.^' I have examined the type of ^wiAz^* 

 agilis; and it is not the green Chinese Pipit named A. macu- 

 latus by Hodgson, but is the common Tree-Pipit, Anthus 

 trivialis. 



Alauda gulgula, Franklin [antea, p. 181). 



Alauda triborhyncha, Hodgs., judging from its short 

 wing, cannot be separated from the common Indian spe- 

 cies, A. gulgula. Hodgson, in a note, states that his spe- 

 cies was founded upon an example with a peculiarly worn 

 bill. Many ornithologists erroneously suppose that A. tri- 

 borhyncha is a large Lark, and misapply the term to Alauda 

 dulcivox. 



Hypolais RAMA, Sykcs (Ibis, 1874, p. 184). 



In spite of the small total length of Sykes^s bird, the type of 

 Sylvia rama is the longer-billed and greyer species. The iden- 

 tification of /f. rama with H. caligata, Mr. Dresser informs me, 

 was a mistake. My remarks about the rufous tone of the new 

 autumnal plumage apply to H. caligata, and not to Sykes's 

 bird. My conclusions, drawn from Sykes^s measurements, 

 were right in the two instances of Milvus govinda and Alauda 

 deva; but I was wrong as regards H. rama. Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 

 1875, p. 513) identified the larger bird with Sykes's type. 



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