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original endorsement still on the stand. An examination of 
the specimen leaves no room for doubt that it is an old male 
of Muscicapa parva, Bechstein, and that it is not referable to 
Muscicapa albicilla, Pallas (= MW. leucura, Gmelin), with which 
it has hitherto, though doubtfully, been associated. 
Muscicapa parva is, however, only a winter visitor to the 
plains of the Indian peninsula and China, spending the 
summer in Turkestan and southern Siberia. It is also a 
summer bird in central and south-eastern Europe, being 
fairly common, but local, in north-eastern Germany and 
central and southern Russia, and farther east in the 
Caucasus and northern Persia. The winter range of the 
European birds extends to Nubia; and it may, perhaps, occur 
irregularly at that season in southern Spain. 
Since Professor Jameson’s days the Red-breasted Fly- 
catcher has become a member of the British avifauna, 
inasmuch as it has occurred as a rare strageler in England 
and Ireland in the autumn and winter, being first recorded 
in the year 1863. 
One more point remains for notice regarding this bird, 
namely, that in synonomy it is usually quoted as Hrythaca 
Tytlert. Lam not aware that Professor Jameson ever applied 
the generic name of Lrythaca to his species. 
It may be of interest to note, that in the latest work 
published on the avifauna of India, Mr Oates (“Fauna of 
British India,” Birds, ii., p. 9) remarks that he has not seen 
an example of Siphia (= Muscicapa) parva from any portion 
of the Himalayas. 
V. Some New or Little Known Oligocheta. By Frank E. 
Bepparp, M.A., F.R.SS.L. & E., Prosector to the Zoological 
Society of London. 
(Read 15th March 1893.) 
I propose in the present paper to offer to the Royal 
Physical Society some notes which I have gathered together 
during the last few years upon Oligocheeta from various parts 
of the world. I destribe three new species and give some 
additional notes upon two others, of which one has been 
