354 Letters, Armouncements, S^'c. 



Acrocejjhahs agricolus (p. 55) should be. Dr. Jerdon says^ A. 

 dumetorum. 



Phjlloscopus tristis (p. 56). I cannot perceive the slightest 

 difference between a P. rufus sent me by Mr. Tristram and the 

 Indian specimens. The bill of the Indian bird is decidedly not 

 shorter. Few of mine have the bill so short as the one received 

 from Mr. Tristram. I knew the song to be that of the ChifF- 

 chaff when I heard it. Birds of different species might be very 

 similar in plumage, but they would scarcely have the same song 

 also. 



Phylloscopus viridanus (p. 56) was correctly named. I have 

 since seen P. luguhris, which is a much darker bird, quite 

 blackish by comparison, and the most dusky of all the Willow- 

 Wrens. The tail-feathers of P. viridanus are faintly barred or 

 rayed, like those of P. trochilus and P. rufus. 



Reguloides superciliosus (p. 56). Among the many skins of 

 P. viridanus I found one of this bird, shot on the 29th of April, 

 1868, near the top of the Kale-niiit Hill, three miles north of 

 Almorah. It was a solitary bird ; and from the bleak place in 

 which I found it, with hardly any cover, I should say it was on 

 its journey over the hill, going further north. The few small 

 scrubby bushes out of which I shot the bird were only a few 

 yards in circumference, and there were no others near. In the 

 plains this bird is excessively common, no bird more so. If I 

 live and get to the hills again, I hope to find its nest, and per- 

 haps that also of R. proregulus and other similar birds. I am 

 so familiar now with the different call-notes of these birds, that, 

 when I do go, hearing the birds will discover them at once to me. 

 When I was there in 1868, I did not know the notes of either 

 of them. I wish I had; for the birds are not always easily 

 seen, as they flit about among the thick foliage of large trees. 



Turtur meena (p. 60) should be T. rujncolus. 



The birds I could not make out are: — Stachyrhis pyrrhops, shot 

 in one of the valleys near Almorah ; Ixulus flavicoUis, shot at 

 Nynee Tal ; and Prinia hodgsoni, shot at Almorah. 

 I remain, &c., 



W. E. Brooks. 



