Synonymy in the Family Sylviidae. 277 



L. gracilirostris (Calamodyta gracilirostris, Hartl.); L.mela- 

 nopogon (Sylvia melanopogon, Tcmm.) ; L. major (Dumeticola 

 major, Brooks) ; L. luteiventris (Tribura luteoventris, Hodgs.) ; 

 L. thoracica (Dumeticola thoracica, Blyth) ; L.flaviventris (Ho- 

 rornis fiaviventer, Hodgs.); L. fuscata (Phyllopneuste fuscata, 

 Blyth) ; L. schwarzi (Sylvia (Phyllopneuste} schwarzi, lladde) ; 

 L. armandi (Abrornis armandi, Milne-Edwards) ; L. indica 

 (Sylvia indica, Jerdon) ; L. fuliginiventris (Horornis fuligini- 

 venter, Hodgs.) ; and L. neglecta (Phylloscopus neglectus, 

 Hunie) . 



Arundinax flemingi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 440. 



Herbivocula incerta, David et Oustal. Ois. de la Chine, 

 p. 246 (1877). 



Oreopneuste qffinis, David et Oustal. Ois. dela Chine, p. 267 

 (1877). 



A careful examination of the type of the first-mentioned 

 bird in the Swinhoe collection, of the description of the second 

 (the type having been lost), and of the type of the third in 

 the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, leads me to 

 the conclusion that these three supposed new species may be 

 all referred to Phylloscopus schwarzi (Radde). They vary 

 slightly in size, but not more so than individuals of allied 

 species usually do, and the slight variations of colour are 

 apparently only seasonal. In relative length of wing and 

 tail, in wing-formula, and in shape of bill they do not differ. 



Tribura luteiventris, Hodgs., apud David et Oustal. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 239. Abbe David's skins in the Museum of the 

 Jardin de Plantes in Paris are incorrectly identified. The 

 upper parts are olive-brown instead of russet-brown, and the 

 wings are longer instead of shorter than the tail. They are 

 the supposed young in first winter plumage of Dumeticola 

 thoracica of Blyth, the Dumeticola affinis of Taczanowski, 

 from Lake Baical, of Prjevalski from Kansu, and of Abbe 

 David from Moupin. 



Lusciniopsis brevipennis,Ve?r. N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vi. p. 65 

 (1871). 



Dumeticola mandelli, Brooks, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 28-1. 



These two supposed new species agree precisely in dimen- 



