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On re-examining the two birds alluded to in my paper 

 quoted above, I find that there is every reason to consider 

 this earlier identification o£ the Burmese birds as correct; 

 for of all the points of difterence enumerated in tabular form 

 by Mr. Oates in * The Ibis/ none but the first hold good 

 when applied to these specimens. And as our Burmese bird 

 shows apparently broader edgings of white to the rump and 

 back-feathers than do the specimens examined by Mr. Oates, 

 this point also would appear to be variable ; indeed, when 

 looking over the series of this form of Pheasant in the British 

 Museum during my visit to England last year, I came to the 

 conclusion that the variation in this point was sufficient to 

 justify me in having refrained from giving specific rank to 

 the Burmese specimen in the Indian Museum. 



Other differences which I pointed out between our Manipur 

 P. humice and this specimen are not noticed by Mr. Oates, 

 so that I presume he found them not borne out by the British 

 Museum series ; and therefore, in view of all this variation in 

 so few examples of this Pheasant as appear to have been 

 examined by naturalists, I think that the claims of Calo- 

 phasis burmannicus to rank as a species must be regarded 

 as " not proven." 



Yours, &c., 



Indian Museum, Calcutta, FraNK FiNN. 



February 10th, 1898. 



Sirs, — In Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's paper on birds from the 

 island of Negros, in the last number of 'The Ibis' (p. 120), 

 he speaks of Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.) in the following 

 terms : — " A male of the Black-naped Flycatcher without 

 the black crescentic bar across the fore neck, and agreeing 

 with H. ceylonensis Holdsworth : a species which Mr. Oates 

 (Birds Brit. India, ii. pp. 49, 50) does not uphold, by reason 

 of the black bar not being a constant character." Perhaps 

 it may save trouble to some interested in the species if I say 

 that I do not recognize H. ceylonensis as any child of mine. 

 On reference to Legge's ' Birds of Ceylon/ p. 408, I find it 



