278 Corrections of Synonymy in the Family Sylviidse. 



sions, relative length of wings and tail, wing-formula, and 

 shape of bill with Tribura luteoventris, Hodgs. The type of 

 the former, in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, 

 agrees also in colour; but the types of the latter, in Man- 

 delli's collection, present slight variations. One skin has 

 spots on the throat, and the other traces of slate-grey on the 

 breast. I imagine these only to be seasonal changes ; but 

 they may prove hereafter to be specific characters, as Blyth 

 suspected to be the case in his nearly allied Dumeticola 

 thoracica. 



Phyllopneuste trochilus, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 

 (1844) . The type, formerly in the India Museum, and now in 

 the British Museum, is a skin of Phylloscopus lugubris, Blyth. 



Abrornis xanthog aster, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 

 (1844). This species was incorrectly identified by Horsfield 

 and Moore (Cat. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 337) with Phylloscopus 

 lugubriSj Blyth. The types, formerly in the India Museum, 

 and now in the British Museum, are skins of Phylloscopus 

 affinis, Tickell. 



Abrornis tenuiceps, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 

 The type, in the British Museum, is a skin of Phylloscopus 

 humei (Brooks) ; but as Hodgson appears nowhere to have 

 given any description of his species, Brooks's name will stand, 

 according to the British- Association Rules. There are also 

 skins of this species in the British Museum labelled P. mo- 

 destus in Blyth's handwriting. 



Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. 

 Mus.) of Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 57, no. 839, undoubt- 

 edly represents Phylloscopus proregulus (Pall.), without the 

 grey on the head and throat and without the white on the 

 inside webs of the two outside tail-feathers characteristic of 

 P. maculipenniSj Blyth. On the other hand, in the same 

 MS. work, App. pi. 45, also no. 839, are two figures un- 

 doubtedly representing Blyth's species. In the British Mu- 

 seum both species are represented amongst Hodgson's types, 

 both being numbered ( ' 839." Hodgson does not appear ever 

 to have described his species, but catalogues it in Gray's 



