3-4 CAMPOniAOAE. 



1. ]^o! voel vont melanura , Hartlaub, J. f. O. 1865, p. 162. 



This is a species which sorely perplexed Mr. Hume , 

 when he wrote his elaborate and useful article on the 

 Intlian Cuckoo-shrikes of the genus Volvocivora in 'Stray 

 Teathers' (Vol. V, pp. 203—207). An examination of the 

 type shews that V. melcmura is only the common T''. luf/u- 

 bris Sund. ( V. ynelascldstus , Hodgs. et auct.) with the best 

 part of his tail gone ; so that the outside , grey-tipped 

 feathers , have been shot away. I may here remark also 

 that Volvocivora vidua, Hartlaub (J. f. 0. 1865, p. 163) 

 seems to be nothing but V. Jimhriata of Java. Dr. Otto 

 Finsch, during a recent visit to England, shewed me the 

 typical specimen , and this was the conclusion I arrived 

 at. The locahty , Aracan , which doubtless misled Dr. Hart- 

 laub, is evidently an error. 



2. Lalage nycthemei'a. 



The type specimen bears the label of Sylvia nycthemera, 

 Temm. and this indicates the affinity of the species some- 

 what nearer than do the efforts of later Avriters to make 

 a Cuckoo-shrike of it, for the bird is nothing else than 

 the Oreicola melanoleuca (Vieill ) ex Timor, and I can 

 only attribute the non-observance of this fact to the slight 

 alteration in the appearance of the bird due to the lower 

 mandible having been broken off. The synonymy of the 

 species Avill be as follows: 



Oreicola melanoleuca. 



Oenanthe melanoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXI, 

 p. 435. 



Saxicola melanoleuca, Bp. Consp. 1, p. 304 (ex Muller 

 MS. in Mus. Lugd.): 



Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485: Finsch , Neu-Guinea , 

 p. 187: 



Gray, Handl. B. 1 , p. 227, N°. 3269. 



Saxicola luctuosa, Bp. Consp. 1, p. 304 (ex Muller MS. 

 in Mus. Lugd.): Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485: Finsch, 



iNotes Iroin the Leydcn ]VIu«euni. 



