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im Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, 1855-59/ Band ii. p. 260, Taf. 

 ix., as Sylvia {Phyllopneuste) schwarzi, is the same as 

 that named by Prof. Milne-Edwards Abrornis armandi, 

 Nouv. Arch. 4n Mus. iii. Bull. p. 32. In my "Revised 

 Catalogue of the Birds of China/' P. Z. S. 1871, no. 132 

 (p. 355), I proposed a new genus for this species, but entered 

 it by mistake as A. davidii. It should now stand as Oreo^ 

 pneuste schwarzi (Radde) . I have never met with the bird m 

 China, but have a specimen collected by Pere David at Pekin, 

 one of the "doubles" received in exchange from the mu- 

 seum at the Jardiu des Plantes. 



It may be as well also to note that my name Calamodyta 

 bistrigiceps , P. Z. S. 1871, p. 353, must give way to von 

 Schrenck's Salicaria [Calamodyta] maacki, 'Reisen und For- 

 schungen in Amurland/ Band i. p. 370, Taf. xii. figs. 4-6, 

 which relates to the same species and has priority. The figure 

 on the plate gives a good idea of the bird, but, unfortunately, 

 leaves out its chief characteristic, the black line over the eye- 

 brow. V. Schrenk founded the species on a single specimen 

 procured by Herr Maack (the astronomer) south of the Amoor 

 river. Pere David has procured it at Peking ; and I have two 

 specimens from Amoy. It has lately also been found by 

 Biakiston at Hakodadi, North Japan. 



Yours truly, 



Robert Swinhoe. 



Dinapore, India, 



March 10, 1874. 



Sir, — I was glad to see, in 'The Ibis' for January 1874, 

 that the little bird I called Melizophilus striatus had been 

 identified as Drymoeca inquieta, Riipp. 



I was not satisfied with my generic determination of the 

 bird, on account of the very difi^erent nest and eggs. My ex- 

 amples of Melizophilus provincialis were very bad ones, with 

 some of the tail-feathers wanting. The strongly striated 

 plumage, however, is against the bird being a Melizophilus ; 

 and this I should have taken more account of. 



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