2 A ROUGH TENTATIVE LiS@@®¥ THE BIRDS OF INDIA. 
Cyanocinclus, (Nests and Eggs, Rough Draft, 226, 1873). Type, 
Turdus cyanus, Lin. 
Molpastes, (S. F., 1.,378, 1873). Type, Muscicapa hemorrhousa, 
Gm. 
Turdinulus, (S. F. VI, 235, 1878). Type, Turdinulus roberti, 
God.-Aust. §& Wald. 
Blanfordius, (8. F., L, 800, 1873). Type, Blanfordius striatulus, 
Hume. 
Dissemuroides, (S. ¥., I., 408, 1873). Type, Dissemuroides di- 
cruriformis, Hume. 
Heteroglauz, (S. E., I., 467, 1873). Type, Heteroglaux blewitti, 
Hume. 
Heterorhynchus, (S. F., I., 415, 1873; V., 238,). Type, 
Heterorhynchus humu, Mandelli. 
Pycnorhamphus, (Nests and Eggs, Rough Draft, 469, 1874). 
Type, Coccothraustes icterioides, Vig. 
Pseudototanus, (S. F., VII., 488, 1879; IV., 347). Type, 
Totanus haughton?, Armstrong. 
All of these (except perhaps Blanfordius, which might possibly 
be merged in Drymeca, though I am not sure of this) indicate, 
so far as I can at present judge, generic divisions, for which 
no previous, unoccupied, name exists, and which, unless we agree 
to lump nearly all modern generic divisions, are necessary and 
proper to be retained. 
The specific synonymy I have partially worked up for about 
two-thirds of the species, but in the remaining third, in which 
I have merely followed other writers without any personal 
investigation, there may, for all I know to the contrary, be any 
number of errors. 
In the arrangement I still follow Dr. Jerdon; firstly, be- 
cause his is the only complete work on the Birds of India as 
yet available; and, secondly, because defective and illogical as 
his classification, in some respects, doubtless is, I have as yet 
met with no general system which did not appear to me to be 
equally, or even more, open to objection, and I have hitherto had 
no time to work out, in the light of modern research, a classi- 
fication that I can myself approve. 
The simple numbers in this list are thoseof Dr. Jerdon’s 
work; all species to which these are prefixed will be found 
there described. Numbers compounded with bis, ter, Sc. A, B, 
dc., indicate (with some half dozen exceptions) species not 
included by Dr. Jerdon, but which have been (more or less 
satisfactorily) described in Stray FeatHers. 
For the help of fellow-workers I have added, after each species, 
references to some of the places in JERDON’s Birps or INDIA 
(Jerd.) and Srray Fraruers (8. F.), at which it will be 
found described, discriminated or discussed. 
