128 Letters, Announcements, &;c. 



IX. — Letters, Announcements, i^c. 



The following letters, addressed " To tlie Editors of ' The 

 Ibis/ " have been received : — 



33 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, S.W, 

 6tli November, 1876, 



Sirs, — In glancing over the ' Catalogue of the Birds in the 

 Museum of the East-India Company,' vol. i., my attention 

 vras called to sp, 370 (p. 246), Pycnonotus sinensis. Among 

 the specimens referred to this species I find "B. (P. sinensis?) 

 Siam. From Finlayson's collection,^' and further on the 

 note, " The specimen from Siam differs in having the head 

 entirely black, which in the other specimens is wreathed with 

 white, but agrees in other respects with the other.'' It 

 will be easy to see that the Siamese bird is the same as my 

 Ixos hainanus (Ibis, 1870, p. 253). On the Liuchow penin- 

 sula of the Chinese main I found the same bird in company 

 with the typical P. sinensis, and secured the latter. It is 

 interesting to find that the Hainan form occurs in Siam. It 

 would be further interesting to ascertain whether the true P. 

 sinensis also occurs so far south. 



Yours &., 



Robert Swinhoe. 



Sirs, — In my paper on the Phylloscopi I am afraid I have 

 been guilty of somewhat wholesale slaughter, I have endea- 

 voured to consign Gerygone superciliosa of Wallace, Phyl- 

 loscopus brooksi of Hume, Phyllopneuste intermedia of Severt- 

 zoff, Phylloscopus abyssinicus of Blanford, Hypolais graminis 

 of SevertzofF, and Phylloscopus brehmi of Homeyer to the 

 limbo of synonyms. I regret very much to be obliged to add 

 another victim to the list ; but in this instance at least the 

 coup de grace comes with a better grace from me than it would 

 from any one else. I miderstand that the present number of 

 ' The Ibis ' will contain an account of the discovery for the 

 first time in Asia of the Pipit [Anthus seebohmi of Dresser) 

 which Harvie Brown and I discovered for the first time in 

 Europe in 1875. I am afraid I hold in my hand evidence 



