163 Mr. E. Blyth on the Indian Phylloscopi. 



while three of the European species have been stated to occur in 

 India, but at a time when the various Indian Pouillots were un- 

 described and the multiphcity of distinct species of them was 

 unsuspected. As neither of them, however, would appear to 

 have been met with in the country since the numerous Indian 

 species have been recognized, we are led to infer that certain 

 other species were mistaken for them ; and it is highly probable 

 that the Sylvia sihilatrix of Dr. Royle's list * refers to our 

 Ph. nitidus, and Mr. Gould^s S. trochilus of W. India f to our 

 Ph. viridanus ; and perhaps M. Temminck's S. trochilus of Japan 

 may likewise prove to refer to some nearly affined species, which 

 he failed to distinguish from the trochilus of Europe J. 



The Indian species have been described under various generic 

 names ; and even now it would not appear that systematists are 

 agreed whether to range the accepted typical form, that of Mota- 

 cilla trochilus, L., under Phyllopneuste of Meyer (1822), which 

 included also the distinct form of Mot. hippolais, L., regarded 

 by Mr. G. R. Gray (in 1811) as typical of Phyllopneuste, — or in 

 Phijlloscopus, Boie (1826), of which M. trochilus is cited as 

 typical. In M. Degland's ' Ornithologie Europeenne^ (1819), 

 M. hippolais, L., with three European congeners is referred to 

 Hippolais, Brehm (1828), the typical species being termed H. 

 pohjglotta (Vieillot) ; and M. trochilus and its congeners are as- 

 Javanese Birds, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 156; neither of which can we iden- 

 tify with Indian species : viz. — 



I'll, javanicus ; Sylvia javanica, Horsfield : seemingly affined to oiu- 

 Ph. magnirostris. And 



Ph. montanus ; Sylvia montana, Horsfield: appai-ently affined to our 

 Ph. tristis. Of Ph. montanus (Horsf.), the late lamented Hugh E. Strick- 

 land informed us, that " the wing is 2 in. long, graduated, with the fifth quill 

 longest." 



Mr. Strickland adds, from Java, — 



Ph. frivirgatus; Salvia trivirgata, Temminck : a species referable to Mr. 

 Hodo'son's group Abrornis ; and it is probable that others of this minor 

 group, from the Archipelago, remain to be described. 



* 111. Him. Bot. lutrodr]). Ixxvii. In this list are enumerated " Sylvia 

 sihilatrix, S. rufa (plains), S. trochilus, and several species undetermined." 

 It is not probable that either of the names specified is correctly appUed ; 

 nor certain others in the same list, as especiallv Gallus Sonneratii ! 

 t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 90. 



X Some Japanese birds which we saw with Mr. Gould, sent by M. Tem- 

 minck, and identified by him with European species, certainly presented 

 ditferences more or less marked. We especially remember the Japanese 

 Robin, Jay, and Bullfinch. The last is probably Pyrrhula griseiventris, 

 Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. de la Soc. Cuv. 1841, p. 241.— Since this note was 

 penned, we have seen Mr. Gould's figure of tlie Japanese Bullfinch, in his 

 * Birds of Asia,' where it is designated P. orientalis, Temminck and Schlegel. 

 The Jay, too, is cited by the Prince of Canino as Garrulus japonicus. 



