172 ]\Ir. Blyth's Notes relating 



neath is well developed, while that of the head and neck is much 

 imbrowned. It is quite arbitrary where to draw the line as to 

 what are to be considered species, races, or varieties, in the 

 genus Munia, at least in not a few instances. 



MuNiA. The specific name punctularia is assigned at Leyden 

 to the Indian race, M. undulata (Latham), with golden-fulvous 

 upper tail-coverts, and nisoria, Temm., to the Malayan race with 

 greyish upper tail-coverts. A third race, from Celebes, has no 

 pale shafts to the feathers of the upper parts, being otherwise 

 like that of India. 



M. CHRYSURA, from Borneo, = M. leucogastra, nobis, from 

 Malacca. 



M. ACUTicAUDA, Hodgson, is marked " M. muscadina, s.n.", 

 from Sumatra. Leyden Museum. 



To Passer flaveolus, nobis (J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 946), from 

 Burma, should be referred Pyrgitajugifera, Temm. (Bouap., 

 Consp. Av. i. p. 508), labelled as from the Philippines, a habitat 

 which [ cannot help thinking should be regarded as dubious for 

 the present. There is only a single male specimen of it in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



To Passer dentatus (Sundevall ?) (Bonap., Consp. Av. i. 

 p. 513) add P. canicapillus, nobis (Ibis, 1865, p. 46), as a 

 synonym. 



Linota fringillirostris, Bonap. (Consp. Av. i. p. 539), 

 in Leyden Museum, marked as from Nipal. Decidedly a com- 

 mon Linnet [L. cannabina), and the alleged habitat extremely 

 doubtful. 



According to Dr. Jerdon, Euspiza aureola and Emberiza 

 RUTILA " appear to be the only Buntings found in Burmah." 

 In the Burmese collection before mentioned, I observed at least 

 one example of Melophus melanicterus. 



Otocorys penicillata (Ibis, 1868, p. 319). Qu. O. longi- 

 rostris {cf. Ibis, 1867, p. 47) ? 



Budytes citreolus, from Russia and Sibevia (in Leyden 

 Museum) = 2^. calcuratus, Hodgson (whether or not B. citreolus 



