168 Mr. Blyth's Notes relating 



can perceive) with the European A. palustris, inappropriately so 

 denominated. 



LocusTELLA CERTHioLA, from Eastern Siberia, in the Leyden 

 Museum is like L. navia, but larger, with a much larger bill. 

 Very decidedly not the Indian species as supposed by Dr. 

 Jerdon. 



L. LANCEOLATA^ from Southcm Russia, in the Leyden Museum 

 is like L. ncevia, but with the breast and flanks very much spotted. 



Sylvia aralensis, from Kokan, in the Leyden Museum is 

 like Phyllopneuste rama, but with white outer rectrices^ the 

 outermost wholly white, the next with white outer web. 



S. BOREALis, Blasius, from Java, Borneo, Phihppines, and 

 Ceylon is Phylloscopus magnirostris, nobis. Leyden Museum. 



Phylloscopus rufus. If Mr. W. E. Brooks obtained this 

 European species near Almorah (Ibis, 1869, pp. 56, 236, and 

 354), he must still not conclude it to be identical with P. tris- 

 tis, nobis J for the two are conspicuously distinct, and there 

 should be a good series of both of them in the Calcutta Mu- 

 seum. The question rather is, whether P. tristis should be 

 considered identical with P. brevir-ostris, Strickland [vide Ibis, 

 1867, p. 25). Herr v. Pelzeln, who is doubtless well acquainted 

 with P. rufus, admits P. tristis (Ibis, 1868, p. 308) ; and I can 

 only suppose that the veritable P. tristis was unknown to Mr. 

 Brooks. 



P. AFFiNis, Tickell. Again I cannot at all understand Dr. 

 Stoliczka, when he asserts that P. affinis "is exceedingly like 

 the European P. sibilatrix and perhaps identical with it" 

 (J. A. S. B. 1868, p. 46). No two species of the genus are 

 more unlike each other ; and the only Indian Phijlloscopus known 

 to me that could well be mistaken for P. sibilatrix (though still 

 exceedingly well distinguished) is P. nitidus. Herr v. Pelzeln 

 only admits P. tristis and P. affinis in his catalogue of Dr. 

 Stoliczka's specimens. 



Of Regulus himalayensis, which Herr v. Pelzeln iden- 

 tifies with R. cristatus, I only saw one specimen, which I 

 believe was procured near Simla, and it should be now in the 



