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Hemipus ob^curiis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 305 ; id. Cat. p. 154 ; 

 id. Birds Barm. p. 122 ; Hume Sf D.w. ti. F. vi, p. 20 J ; Sk'trpe, 

 Cit. B. M. iii, p. 30~>; Gates, B. B. i, p. 2JO ; Baker, Jour. Bom. 

 N. H. Soc. ix, p. 113. 



For description see Vol. I, p. 473, footnote. 



Distribution. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Malacca. Blyth, in his 

 Catalogue, gave Tenasserim as a locality, and in his ' Birds of Burma ' 

 Mergui. Gates included the species in the ' Birds of Burma,' but, for the 

 reasons given in the footnote already quoted, omitted it from the present 

 work. As a specimen has now been secured, together with its nest, at 

 Laisung, North Cachar, by Mr. Stuart Baker, it is probable that Blvth 

 was correctly informed, and the species must be included in the Indian 

 fauna. 



Vol. I, pp. 479-481. Nos. 490, 491, Pericrocotus sveciotus and P.frater- 

 culus. Numerous specimens showing a passage between these two 

 have been obtained in the Cachar hills. Baker, Jour. Bom. N. PI. 

 Soc. ix, p. 116 ; x, pp. 151, 631. 



Vol. II, p. 9. Add to the synonymy of No. 561, Siphia parva : 



Rubecola tytleri, Jameson, Edinb. N. Phil. Jour, xix, p. 214 (1835). 



Mr. W. Eagle Clarke ha.s found Jameson's type in the Edinburgh 

 Museum (Ibis, 1892, p. 558). By Jerdon R. tytitri was referred witu. 

 doubt to Erythrosterna leucura (=562. Siphia albicilla). The references, 

 Jerdon, B. I. iii, Appendix, p. 871; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 372; 1870, 



&166, should be added to the synonymy of Erythroxterna parva under 

 o. 561. There are Western "Himalayan specimens in the British 

 Museum. 



Vol. II, p. 97. A comparison of Ruticilla erythrogaster from the 

 Caucasus, the original locality, has induced the Hon. W. 

 Rothschild (Nov. Zool. iv, p. 168, 1897) to distinguish No. 645, 

 the Himalayan and Central Asiatic race, aa R. grandis, Gould 

 (P. Z. S. 1849, p. 312). Both sexes of this bird are said to be con- 

 siderably paler in colour. The only Caucasian specimen I have been 

 able to examine is much more richly coloured than Himalayan 

 skins. 



Vol. II, p. 100. Richmond (Proc. U.S. National Museum, xviii, p. 484) 

 describes No. 648, the White-spotted Bluethroat, from Ladak as 

 a new species under the name of Cyanecida abbotti, said to be dis- 

 tinguished from C. wolfi by the deeper blue of the throat, the blue 

 lores, and the longer bill. After examining the series in the British 

 Museum collection, I cannot see that there is any constant dirf'erence 

 between Asiatic and European birds, aud I do not think they need 

 separation. 



Vol. II, p. 104. No. 652, Calliope tschebaiewi figured. Baker. Jour. 

 Bom. N. H. Soc. ix, pi. C. 



Vol. II, p. 221. Salvador! has shown, Ibis, 1888, p. 320, that Bucanetes, 

 Cabanis, 1857, must be used for this genus, not Erythrospiza, 

 Bonap., which is a synonym of Carpodacm. 



Vol. II, p. 301. Genus Antlws. As was anticipated (Vol. II, p. 304) 

 A. pratensis has been found within Indian limits. Blyth (Ibis, 

 1867, p. 32) stated that he had seen undoubted specimens from 

 North-western India, but his remark appears to have been dis- 

 regarded, probably because Hume doubted whether some Indian 

 skins previously referred to A. pratensis by J. Verredux were 

 correctly identified. 



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