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to keep them as two races. The characters relied on by 

 Robinson and Kloss, i. e. the yellow forehead, yellow lores 

 and eyebrow, and yellower upper tail-coverts, arc purely 

 individual, and Dr. Hartert and I have carefully examined 

 the specimens in the Tring Museum together and agree that 

 the characteristics are of no sub-specific value. 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula ; mountainous country 

 only. 



VI. — iSome Remarks on the JS^ames of certain Birds. 

 By Claud B. Ticehurst, M.A., M.R.C.S., B.C., M.B.O.U. 



In s{)ite of all that has been written of recent years by 

 expert nomenclaturists on what names have priority for 

 each species, there are, aud must be for years to come, a 

 good many names which are still being used incorrectly 

 even by the strictest priorists, since even in my small sphere 

 of work a few have come under my notice, and I have 

 thought that it would bo desirable to call attention to them. 



1. The Yellow-bkowed Warbler. — This is the Motacilla 

 siqyerciliosa of Ginelin, the Phylloscopus superciliosus of 

 most authors. Unfortunately, as pointed out by Messrs. 

 Mathews atid Iredale (Austral Avian Ilec. vol. iii. pp. 44-5, 

 Dec. 1915), the Motacilla superciliosa of Gmelin is not the 

 same species as the Motacilla superciliosa of Boddaert, ].783, 

 and so, of course, suj>erciHosa cannot be used for this Warbler. 

 Messrs. Mathews and Iredale failed to find a synonym which 

 could be used instead, and {loc. cif.) they proposed the name 

 'prannium for this bird, which would then become Phylloscopus 

 humei prannium, and this name has been adopted in the 

 B.O.U. List, 2m\ Ed., ]915, etc. 



These nomenclatorial explorers, however, need not have 

 looked beyond Yarrell (Ed. iv. p. 445, footnote) to have got 

 on the right track, and a little further search would have led 

 them to Blyth's ' Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of 

 the Asiatic Society ' p. 184, aud so to J. A. S. B. xi. p. 191, 



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