16 i Mr. Blyth's Notes relating 



LiD/E in the Ley den Museum, I found nothing to alter my opinion 

 regarding the various oriental species^ expressed in 'The Ibis^ for 

 1866 (pp.359 et seq.). But I may mention that the Javan 

 Surniculus (or Polyphasia) resembles that of Bengal, Tenassernn, 

 and Pinang; as distinguished from the smaller S. merulinus of 

 Malacca. 



Arachnothera aurata, nobis (J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478). 

 In the collection of Burmese birds before mentioned I noticed 

 two examples of this species, which previously I only knew from 

 the single specimen originally described. 



Upupa epops. It is remarked by Herr von Pelzeln (Ibis, 

 1868, p. 307) that "all Asiatic specimens, more especially on 

 the back, are of a greyer hue " — that is, than European examples 

 of the Hoopoe. The Burmese Hoopoes, however, are con- 

 siderably more rufous above than those either of Bengal or of 

 Europe ; and Dr. Jerdon even separates them by the name U. 

 longirostris {cf. Il)is, 1866, p. 366), which does not appear to 

 be an appropriate appellation. 



Lanius nigriceps is marked L. pileatus in the Leyden 

 Museum, where also there are specimens of the L. cristatus- 

 type from Amurland just like the Bengal species, and others 

 from Borneo and Ceylon, which are absolutely undistinguishable 

 from some received from China ! likewise many examples from 

 Java of L. superciliosus and L. magnirostris, which Lord Walden 

 has already noticed as inhabiting that island (Ibis, 1869, p. 242). 



Tchitrea paradisi, apud Stoliczka, Von Pelzeln, and Brooks 

 (J. A. S. B. 1868, p. 26, Ibis, 1868, p. 314, and 1869, p. 49). 

 Should not this rather be T. qffinis ? which is the only one that 

 I have ever seen in Himalayan collections. 



Drymophila limbata, Temm., from Java and Timor, is a 

 Philentoma, like P. velatum, but larger. Leyden Museum. 



Cyanoptila cyanomelanura. a specimen of this Japanese 

 bird in the Leyden Museum is labelled as coming from Nipal, 

 which must needs be a mistake*. There is likewise one example 



* I also found there a female of Sialia arctica marked from Nipal I 



