90 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



Zoothera marginata. Spizixus canifrons. 



Turdus ruficollis ?* Adult and Oriolus traillii. 



young. Ruticilla rufiventris (nipalensis). 



Merula castanea. R. leucocepliala. 



Myiophoueus temmincki. Henicurus immaculatus. 



Garrulax leucoloplius. Liotlirix luteus. 



Actinodura egertoni. L. argentaiuis. 



Sibia gracilis. Ixulus castaneiceps. 



Timalia pileata. Parus cinereus. 



Pomatorhinus hypoleucus. Pnoepj-ga longicaudata. 

 Ixus flavescens. 



Another bird which I cannot help thinking is assigned to 

 Afghanistan and Tibet by mistake, is the Yunx indica, Gould, 

 which, as suggested to me by Mr. R. B. Sharpe, appears to have 

 been founded upon a specimen of the South- African Y. pecto- 

 ralis, Vigors, just as the Cisticola magna of Gould's ' Birds of 

 Australia' was long ago shown by Strickland, in the 'Contri- 

 butions to Ornithology,' to have been founded on a specimen, 

 lent by himself, of what afterwards proved to be the South- 

 African Drymoeca levaillanti. In IMalherbe's monograph of the 

 Picidce, a copy of one of Mr. Gould's figures of his alleged 

 Y. indica is given in the same plate as a figure of Y. pectoralis 

 and one of 1'. aquinoctialis ; and it certainly does not appear to 

 me in what respect the two former differ as species from one 



another. 



I am yours, &c., 



E. Blyth. 



Professor Newton informs us that Dr. Bessels, who has 

 already had some experience in Arctic zoology, has embarked 

 as a naturalist with the American Expedition under Captain 

 Hall, the object of which is to reach the North Pole by way 

 of Smith's Sound. It was originallv intended that Dr. David 

 Walker, who served as naturalist on board the ' Fox ' during 

 her ever memorable voyage in 1857-59 in search of the 

 Franklin Expedition, and contributed to this Journal a paper on 

 the birds he then observed (Ibis, 1860, pp. 165-168),s hould 

 accompany Captain Hall ; but unfortunately this arrangement 



* Procured in the Khasias by Major Godwin- Austen. 



