Letters, Announcements, ^c. 143 



it at any distance. In the Nujjufgurh Jheel, south of Delhi^ my 

 friend Mr. R. Blewitt has repeatedly observed single examples. 



The specimen referred to by Dr. Jerdon, which I now pos- 

 sess, was brought, with five others (none of which, unfortunately, 

 were preserved), not from the neighbourhood of Delhi, but 

 from the interior of Rajpootana, and probably from the Sambhur 

 Lake, though the shikarees refused to tell me where they got 

 them. 



6th. The Wheatears which Mr. Brooks showed me (Ibis, 

 1869, p. 234), of which I have specimens shot at various times 

 between the 25th September and the 5th April, are, I believe, 

 unquestionably Saxicola saltatrix, Menetr.,=: /S. isabellina, Riipp. 



There has been some mistake between Mr. Brooks and myself 

 about the Phylloscopus with a white wing-lining. The bird he 

 refers to {torn. cit. pp. 236, 237) is the species I call Phyl- 

 loscopus NEGLECTUS, in regard to which I quote the following l~ 

 remarks from my notes : — " There is a species of Phjlloscopus 

 very closely allied to, but yet clearly distinct from either P. tristis 

 or P. fuscatus. This latter has the upper surface a moderately 

 dark dingy olive-brown, and the wing-lining and axillaries a 

 sort of dingy buflf or pale rufous. P. tristis has the upper parts 

 brown, paler than P. fuscatus and with scarcely any olivaceous 

 tinge, and the wing-lining and axillaries pale primrose-yellow. 



"The third hitherto unnoticed species, which I call P. neg- 

 lectus, has the upper surface a grey earthy brown (the colour of 

 Phyllopneuste rama), and the wing-lining and axillaries white. 

 In dimensions and structure (and in plumage, with the above 

 exception) P. neglectus agrees closely with P. tristis. 



" P. neglectus is common in the cold weather in the Punjab, 

 and in the Doab, at least as low down as Agra ; but hitherto I 

 have seen no specimens from Central India or the lower Doab." 



I have both males and females, according to the tickets of my 

 contributors ; but I have never myself ascertained the sexes. I 

 have sometimes thought that these might be the young birds of 

 one or the other of the two above-named species ; but with several 

 specimens before me I do not now think that this is the case. 



I now venture to send you a description of what is to me a 

 new species. It may be well known to European ornithologists ; 



