56 Mr, W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



The birds collected by Limborg were examined by Col. 

 Godwin-Austen, and identified as " Pnoepyga roberti,^' 

 Godw.-Aust. & Wald., although the throat and fore neck 

 were entirely devoid of black spots. It must be added, how- 

 ever^ that Col. God win- Austen's collection having at that 

 time been sent to England, he was unable to compare 

 the Mooleyit specimens with the types from the Manipur 

 Hills. 



Mr. A. O. Hume, no doubt accepting this erroneous 

 identification, named all his Tenasserim examples of this 

 little Babbler Turdinulus roberti, and under this misnomer 

 they were placed in the National collection. So the mistake 

 began, and, one error having led to another, the genus Tur- 

 dimilus has at the present time got into a state of consider- 

 able confusion. But by commencing at its original source I 

 hope to be able to clear up the tangle. 



In the first place there can be no dovibt that Mr. Biitti- 

 kofer is quite justified in uniting the genera Corythocichla, 

 Sharpe, and Turdinulus, Hume (Notes Leyd. Mus. xvii. 

 p. 73). In Turdinulus, which was founded on Pnoepyga 

 7'uberti, the tail is said to be so short that it is hidden by the 

 plumes of the rump. It is perfectly true that in one of the 

 typical examples this is the case, but this peculiarity is 

 entirely due to the '^ make-up of the skin,^' for in the second 

 typical specimen as well as in other examples the tail extends 

 at least 0*4 of an inch beyond the plumes of the rump, as in 

 Dr. Sharpe's Corythocichla. 



In 'The Ibis,' 1865, p. 47, Blyth described Myiothera 

 murina, a species said by the author to be founded on a 

 specimen in the Leyden Museum bearing the above MS. 

 name of S. Miiller. It has already been shown by Dr. Sharpe 

 (Notes Leyd. Mus. 1884, p. 174) that the only Myiothera 

 murina, S. Miill., in the Leyden Museum is no Turdinulus, 

 but the Crateroscelis murina of his volume (Cat. B. vii. 

 p. 590) ; and it is quite evident that Blyth's notes must have 

 been written from memory — hence his mistake. He wrote 

 as follows : — 



" M. murina, S. Miill., n. s. Also a true Turdinus and 



