148 Mr. C. B. Ticehurst on the [Ilns, 



where Blyth gave an excellent description o£ this bird under 

 the name o£ Regains inornntiis. Blyth says that the locality 

 of his specimen was unknown, but he was informed that the 

 species inhabits the vicinity of Darjeeling ; in his Cata- 

 logue written seven years later he says it is common in 

 Lower Bengal, and places it as a synonym of modestus of 

 Gould (a name which many older authors seemed to have 

 used impartially for proregidus and supercilios^is, auct.), 

 as he found it was simply superciliosus in worn dress. 

 Grould's plate of modestus is none too good, but I do not 

 think there can be any doubt that it represents proregidus. 

 Blyth''s descri|)tion of his inornatits fits well the superciliosa 

 of Gmelin, and does not fit any other Phylloscopvs which 

 inhabits Darjeeling and Lower Bengal. Moreover, in 

 Mr. J. H, Gurney's copy of Blyth's Catalogue there is 

 written in pencil in Blyth's own handwriting against 

 B. inornatus " superciliosus Gmelin " ! Li future, therefore, 

 the name of this bird should bo known as P/u/lloscopus 

 inornatus inornatus (Blyth), J. A. S. B. xi. 1842, pp. 191-2. 



2. Eastern Yellow Wagtail. — This bird has mas- 

 queraded for years as Motadlla fava campestris Pallas, how 

 and why it is hard to say. It is not the Motadlla campestris 

 of Linnaeus, 10th ed. p. 184. The next name available appears 

 to bo Jiavifrons of Severtzow (' Stray Feathers,' iii. Nov. 

 1875, p. 424). Whether f/avifrons and rayi are to be regarded 

 as racial forms o^Jiava or not is, I think, a moot point. 



3. The Olivaceous Willow-Warbler. — This is the 

 Phylloscopus indica of authors and the Sylvia indica of 

 Jerdon 1840, but not the Sylvia indica of Vieillot 1817, 

 which is a Tarsiger. The next oldest name would seem to be 

 Phylloscopus griseolus Blyth (J. A. S. B. xvi. 1874, p. 443 : 

 Hugli River at Calcutta). 



4. The Kashmir Red-breasted Flycatcher. — This is the 

 SijMa liyperytlira of Cabanis (J. f. 0. 1866, p. 391) and also 

 of many other authors. So long as this Flycatcher and its 

 allies are kept in the genus Siphia, the name hyperythra can 



