■168 ALETHE DïADEMATA. 



pleased to find from an examination of the type in the 

 Leyden Museum , that this identification was correct. 

 The species is certainly an Alethe and not a Cossypha or 

 Bessonornis^ and Dr. Hartlaub was quite right when he re- 

 ferred the species to the former genus , though he appears 

 not to have recognised in his Alethe maculicauda of 1861, 

 the Cossypha diademata of his » Ornithologie West- Afrika's" 

 of 1857. 



Genus Cisticola (Sharpe 1. c. p. 235). 



Cisticola oryziola (S. Mull.) as suspected by me (p. 240 , 

 footnote) is C. exilis (V. & H.). The type in Leyden is in 

 winter plumage , and the red-headed or rujiceps stage stands 

 in the Leyden Museum under the name of C. delicatissima 

 (Mull. Verh.). I believe, however, that the name was never 

 published. 



Suya blythi, Bp. Consp. I, p. 281. 



This reference has been given by me as a synonym of 

 Prinia polychroa (Cat, B. VII, p. 202). In the Leyden 

 Museum are some birds bearing the unpublished name of 

 Prinia leucophris Temm,, which I believe to be the types 

 of Bonaparte's Suya blythi. 



The reddish brown bill points to these birds being allied to 

 Prinia inornata , Sykes , which they further resemble in length 

 of wing and the uniform back ; the bill , however , seems 

 much larger. As we have not at present been able to trace 

 all the plumages of Prinia polychroa in Java, it seems 

 best to suppose that the birds at Leyden may be stages 

 of plumage of the last named -species, or they may be a 

 large-billed race of P. inornata indigenous to Java, in 

 which case they must be called Prinia blythi (Bp.). 



Genus St€€chyfis^ Hodgs, (Sharpe, 1. c. p. 532). 



Two species require to be added to this genus and the 

 »Key" fp, 532) will want alternation as follows: 



iNotes from tlie Leyden !M.useiiixi , "Vol. VI. 



