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fringilla adamsi and Xantholcema indica, is thus accounted 

 for. 



Of the two hundred and eighty species collected or observed by 

 Dr. Stoliczka, there are described as new, Linota pygmoia, Frin- 

 gilluuda sordida, and Munia similaris. The first two appear to 

 have been hitherto undescribed ; but the third is undoubtedly 

 Munia undulata (Lath.)* iu first plumage. Three species, be- 

 longing to the genera Fhylloscopus, Allot rius, and Hydrobata 

 are noted as undetermined. From description alone, it is 

 difficult to identify some of the small Warblers ; and the 

 species described may possibly be new. It is said to resemble 

 Fhylloscopus rama (Sykes), but to be decidedly smaller. So 

 many Asiatic species have already been described closely re- 

 sembling Col. Sykes's bird that Dr. Stoliczka has exercised a 

 laudable caution in not adding another. The Allotrius our 

 author considers to be the Fteruthius xanthochlorus of Hodgson 

 (J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 448), hitherto regarded as the female 



* The synonjTiiy of this genus is in some confusion. Three original 

 descriptions of a spotted Munia were published previously to 1766, — one 

 by Albin, with a coloured plate (1738), from a bird said to have come 

 from China, one by Edwards (174-3), with a coloured plate, said to be 

 from the East ^Indies, where it is called Cowry bird, and one by Brisson 

 (1760), from a specimen obtained near Batavia, in Java. Linnaeus (S. N. 

 i. p. 302) quotes Edwards first, and then Brisson, omitting Albin. If the first 

 reference is to be taken as having supplied the type, the Indian bird 

 must stand as M. pimctidaria (L.); if the second, the Linntean title must 

 be applied to the Javan bird, Fringilla nisoria, Temm. Jerdon's White- 

 backed Munia (B. Ind. iii. p. 356) is clearly not Loxia striata, L., founded 

 on Brisson's " Gros-bec de ITsle de Bom-bon" (Orn. iii. p. 243), which has 

 the entire upper surface uniform. If not indigenous to that island, Brisson's 

 type probably came from Java, where a species exists fully answering to his 

 description (M. leucogastroides, Moore, Cat. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 510). The 

 Indian bird must stand as M. leuconota (Temm. PI. Col., Livr. 84, May 8, 

 1830, descr. orig. ex Bengal). The propriety of applying the Linnsean title 

 of L. malacca, foimded on Brisson's " Gros-bec de Java " (Orn. iii. p. 237), 

 to Jerdon's Black-headed Munia (B. Ind. ii. p. 352), depends upon the 

 identity of the Indian with the bird of Java, whence Brisson's type came. 

 Linnseus included two distinct species under this title. M. kelaarti, Blyth, 

 from Ceylon, first described by Mr. Blyth, with a doubt, as M. jwctoralis, 

 Jerd. (J. A. S. B. 1851, p. 178), is, I strongly suspect, the same as Flocevs 

 fringilloides, Lafresu. (Mag. de Zool. 1 ser. tab. 48, December 1835), ex Ceylon. 



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