chiefly to the Birds uf India. 167 



Pratincola rubicola (Ibis, 1868, p. 309; 1869, p. 53). It 

 is very possible that this bird may occur in the higher Himalaya, 

 and yet be distinct from P. indica of the lower elevations and of 

 the plains. The difference of the note in the instance of the 

 race which visits Lower Bengal in the cold season was at once 

 recognized by nie, and influenced me when I proposed its sepa- 

 ration from P. rubicola. In European examples (so far as I 

 have seen) the ferruginous colouring of the lower parts is always 

 much more developed than in specimens procured in Bengal or 

 elsewhere on the plains of India; but Dr. Bettoni^s figure of 

 a Lombard (?) specimen (Ucc. Lomb. tav. QQ) is a better repre- 

 sentation of the ordinary P. indica than is that of Mr. Gould 

 (B. As. pt. XV.). 



Saxicola leucura and S. opistholeuca (not leucuroides) of 

 India (Ibis, 1869, p. 234). Mr. Hume may rest assured that 

 the two birds here mentioned are distinct not only in species 

 but in genus, the first being a true Dromolaa, and therefore 

 much more robust in form than the other. Both species 

 should be in the Calcutta Museum. 



Larvivora cyana and Ianthia cyanura (J. A. S. B. 1868, 

 p. 310, and Ibis, 1868, p. 310) should now stand as L. super- 

 ciliaris (Jerdon), and /. rufilata (Hodgson) (Ibis, 1867, p. 16). 

 The Japanese Lusciola komadori, Schlegel, seems to be allied to 

 Larvivora, and is decidedly not a true Robin. 



Myiothera leucophrys, Temm., is a true Brachijpteryx. 

 There are three specimens in female plumage in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



Tesia superciliaris and Micrura squamata, from Java, 

 are in the Leyden Museum. The latter is doubtfully identical 

 with M. or Pnoepyga squamata {vera) of the Himalaya. 



TuRDUS PALLENs, Pallas, is T. rufaliS, Drapiez, T. modestus, 

 Eyton, beside having other synonyms. 



^'Geocichla mutabilis, S. Miiller?" sp. n. (Leyden Mu- 

 seum.) Adult slaty, with white supercilium, white vent and 

 tips to lower tail-coverts. Java. 



AcROCEPHALUs AGRicoLUS, Jerdou, is identical (so far as I 



