276 Mr. H. Seebohm's Corrections of 



(Pall.), of which he is now satisfied that his supposed new 

 species was a somewhat small example. 



Lusciniopsis hendersoni, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1858, 

 p. 194. This bird has been identified by Dresser and Hume 

 with the Turkestan and Indian species. I have carefully 

 examined the type in the Museum of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences in Philadelphia, and find it to be an example of 

 Locustella minuta, Swinh., which I take to be only a form 

 of L. lanceolata (Temm.) . The Turkestan and Indian species 

 must therefore stand as L. straminea (Severtz.). 



Arundinax davidiana, Verr. N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vi. p. 37 

 (1870). The type of this alleged species is in the Museum 

 of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and is, in my opinion, a 

 specimen of Horornis fortipes, Hodgs., or, as I prefer to call 

 the bird, Cettia fortipes (Hodgs.). It is described, and not 

 badly figured, in David et Oustalet's Oiseaux de la Chine, 

 pi. 20. If the Formosan species, Horeites robustipes, Swinh., 

 be, as I maintain, the same as the Himalayan bird, Abbe 

 David's examples from Chinese Thibet are specially interesting 

 as coming from an intermediate locality. 



Horornis fulv iventris } Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. 

 Mus.) of Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 63, no. 878 which 

 name was first published by Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. 

 p. 82 (1844), and accompanied for the first time with a 

 description of the bird in an article contributed by Hodg- 

 son to the P. Z. S. 1845, p. 31 must sink into a synonym 

 of Phylloscopus fuscatus, Bly th, a name which dates from 

 1842. Hodgson's type, which was originally in the India 

 Museum, and is now in the British Museum, is conclusive 

 upon the question. I am inclined to think that Hodgson 

 was right in separating this species from Phylloscopus. In 

 their general style of coloration, their large bastard primary, 

 and their somewhat graduated tail, P. fuscatus (Blyth), P. 

 schwarzi (Radde), P. armandi (Milne-Edwards), P. indicus 

 ( Jerdon), and P. fuliginiventris (Hodgs.) are aberrant Phyl- 

 loscopi, and appear to me to be more nearly allied to Lusci- 

 niola melanopogon (Temm.) . This genus might consist of the 

 following species :> Lusciniola aedon (Muscicapa aedon, Pall.) ; 



