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perhaps Mr. Sharpe liad not then seen the bird. In his 

 Catalogue Mr. Gurney protests against suppressing this 

 Eagle, and refers to Mr. Sharpens footnote above mentioned. 



Sylvia minuscula, Hume. — This bird is only found in dry 

 semi-desert places, and is not spread over India like ^S'. affinis. 

 In voice and habits, as well as in plumage, it strongly differs 

 from S. affinis. I frequently met with it in Scind. About 

 Sehwan it was very common. 



Phylloscopus viridanus. — In vol. v. of the British Museum 

 Catalogue, Mr. Seebohra gives P. seebohmi as a synonvm. 

 I examined the specimen very carefully and found the remains 

 of the upper wing-bar. It was from Burmah, and none of 

 the supposed P. viridanus from that country were correctly 

 named. A very worn P. plumb eitai'sus, such as P. seebohmi 

 was, is not easily separated from P. viridanus similarly 

 worn. 



Phylloscopus vii^idipennis , Blyth. — I made a verv careful 

 examination of the two specimens (one of them the type) in 

 the Calcutta Museum some years ago : they were small-sized 

 examples of P. trochiloides. The name of the white-tailed 

 Burmese bird should stand therefore as P.presbytis, Miiller. 

 Mr. Seebohm, in a footnote, contends that Miiller^s name 

 must give way to Blyth's earlier name of virid/pennis ; but 

 let Mr. Seebohm show, if he can, that Blyth described the 

 white tail-feathers. All I can say is, lam absolutely certain 

 Blyth's birds were P. trochiloides, a species which varies in 

 size as much as P. rufus does ; and Blyth was misled in dis- 

 criminating the small ones just as I was mistaken in calling 

 small P. rufus, P. tristrami. Blyth was much too good an orni- 

 thologist to overlook the white tail-feathers of P. presbytis. 

 Blyth's specimens were in a very dilapidated condition when 

 I last saw them, and by this time any conclusion drawn from 

 them would be valueless ; but P. trochiloides was obtained 

 by Jerdon at Darjeeling, where the white-tailed bird is not 

 found. Mr. Hume has often contended that the white- 

 tailed bird is P. viridipennis ; but such contention is useless 

 when the type is P. trochiloides, and the description does not 

 suit the white-tailed bird. If there be any doubt as to what 



