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to get me in exchange from Lis father, of the Leiden Museum, 

 a specimen of genuine T. fumiyatus. His reply I have un- 

 fortunately mislaid ; but it was to the purport that the mu- 

 seum had no duplicate to spare, but that my bird, which he 

 and his father had carefully compared with the type speci- 

 mens, was identically the same. We must therefore conclude 

 that T. alascensis, Baird, is a synonym of T. fumigatus, 

 Temm. 



M. Taczanowski, of Warsaw, writes about the Chinese 

 Bvintings, as folloAvs : — "Dans votre liste des oiseaux de Chine 

 je trouve une confusion dans deux especes d'Emberiza. E. 

 cioides, Natterer {=-E. cia. Pall.), est identique k votre E. cas- 

 taneiceps, c'est le meme oiseau de Schrenck et de Radde ; 

 taudis que votre E. giglioli estce que je trouve aussi en Siberie, 

 et qui ressemble le plus h, VE. cia, L., et differe de VE. ci- 

 oides, T. et S. = ciopsis, Bp. II est possible que cette der- 

 niere se trouve aussi en Chine, mais on nc I'a pas encore 

 trouvee en Siberie. L'oiseau que je tiens pour votre E. gi- 

 glioli a les stries sur la tete rousscs au lieu des noires de cia, 

 et le cendre de la poitrine beaucoup plus riche et bleuatre, 

 et beaucoup plus avance sur le ventre. Outre Dybowski per- 

 sonne ne Fa pas encore observe en Siberie.^' 



I would ask permission to make a few remarks in reply to 

 Mr. W. E. Brooks's letter in the last ' Ibis' (p. 461). I was 

 reporting what I considered a discovery, viz. that Phyllo- 

 pneuste schwartzi, Radde, was identical with Abrornis armandi, 

 Milne-Edw. I did not suppose that any one interested would 

 accept my determination without study of the original descrip- 

 tions. I will not shrink from saying that though I had no 

 need to refer to Mr. Tristram's identification, in my mind I 

 rejected it. I saw the specimen referred to by Mr. Tristram. 

 It was marked as coming from Lake Baikal, and was cer- 

 tainly a P. viridanus, Blyth; but what I maintain is, that it 

 was not a P. schwarzi, Radde. I may add that I am also 

 in a position to show that Calamodyta niaacki, Schrenck, 

 is not a race of Phylloscopus fuscatus, Blyth, but a Reed- 

 bird identical with my C. bistrigiceps (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 293) 

 (see Ibis, April, 1874, p. 151). The original blame for these 



