136 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



Turdus cardis, $ , is my dissimilis." I had neither materials nor 

 time to correct this, and therefore at once adopted this correction. 

 In 1863 Mr. Sclater described a Turdus hortulorum from China, 

 of which Swinhoe writes : — " I believe BIyth's Turdis dissimilis 

 is not the same as the South-China species (i. e. hortulorum) " 

 (with which, however, Swinhoe, in epist., had written me that 

 Blyth had originally identified it); ^'neither surely can it heTurdus 

 cardis, with which Jerdon has confounded it.^' Whether my 

 confusion was owing to Mr. Swinhoe labelling his specimen 

 wrongly, or Blyth mistaking it, I must leave those gentlemen 

 to settle for themselves ; for I have absolved myself, I hope. 



At the conclusion of my account of this bird, p. 522, I state 

 that the female (i. e. dissimilis) so much resembles the coloration 

 of Turdus chnjsolaus, Temm. P. C. 537, that, judging from the 

 figure alone, I cannot help suspecting their identity. Blyth, 

 in his Commentary on my 'Birds of India,^ accepted this identi- 

 fication ; and Hume, in his list, privately printed for distribution, 

 adopted it. 



To conclude. Major Godwin-Austen got a fine specimen of this 

 bird on the Garrow hills, which Mr. Swinhoe at once identified, 

 unhesitatingly, as T, hortulorum as known to him, and Mr. 

 Blyth and myself agree to be his T. dissimilis ; so that it must 

 hereafter take its place in the system as 



358. Geocichla dissimilis. (Plate VII.) 

 The figure (PI. VII.) is taken from Major Godwin-Austen's 

 specimen. 



358 his. Geocichla obscura (Gmelin). 



Turdus pallens, Pallas. 



T. rufulus, Eyton. 



T. modestus, Blyth. 



T. chrysolaus, Temm. apud God win- Austen. 



T. pallidus, Swinhoe. 



T. davidianus, Milne-Edwards. 



The White-browed Thrush. 



Major Godwin-Austen got one specimen of this Thrush at 

 Cherra Poonjee, in November. It had the upper parts olivaceous, 

 darker on the head, with a white supercilium ; quills dusky 



