354 ON BIRDS IN THE HUME COLLECTION. [June 29, 
Both races are figured by Gould in the ‘ Birds of Asia,’ but, like 
other ornithologists, he considered the differences between them to 
be of insufficient specific value. They are, however, so well marked 
that I propose the name of Carpodacus severtzovi for the Central- 
Asian bird, and Mr. Seebohm agrees with me that it ought to have 
a different name from that of the Caucasus form (C. rubicillus of 
Gildenstiidt). 
No. 3. On Lalage melanothorax, Sharpe. 
In registering and arranging the splendid series of Campophagidee 
in the Hume Collection, I naturally looked out for additional 
specimens of the fine Lalage which I described in 1879, from 
Madras, naming it Lalage melanothorax (Cat. B. iv. p. 91). 
Not finding any additional specimens in the Hume Collection, I 
had another look at the type in the British Museum, and at once 
recognized that it must be an artefact! The body is that of Lalage 
sykesi, but the head and neck are those of Buchanga atra. That I 
should not have noticed this before is as surprising as the fact that 
I have shown the specimen to many ornithological friends, most of 
them intimately acquainted with the two species above mentioned, 
and that none of us have detected the fraud. On re-examining the 
specimen, as I have done many times before, it is impossible to detect 
where the birds have been joined together. Lalage melanothorax, 
however, is a name to be suppressed. 
No. 4. On some Flycatchers of the Genus Siphia. 
Seven specimens of Siphia olivacea (Hume) are in the Hume 
Collection, and I find that I had rightly identified the species in the 
‘Catalogue of Birds,’ vol. iv. p. 458. 
Cyornis albo-olivacea, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 488, is Setaria 
pectoralis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 233, and Rhinomyias pectoralis of 
my ‘Catalogue,’ vol. iv. p. 368. 
Cyornis poliogenys, Brooks, Str. F. 1878, p. 469, seems to be a 
good species, and is closely allied to S. olivacea (Hume), but has a 
grey head and face, and is orange-rufous on the breast, the throat 
also being washed with the same colour and not white as in C. 
olivacea. This species will have the following synonymy :— 
SIPHIA POLIOGENYS. 
Cyornis poliogenys, Brooks, Str. F. 1879, p. 469. 
Siphia cacharensis, Madarasz, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 52, Taf. 1. 
fig. 2 (1884). 7 
Hab. Sikhim Terai (W. E. Brooks) ; Bhootan Dooars (Mandelli) ; 
Dibrughur, Assam (J. R. Cripps) ; Shillong; Cachar (4. O. Hume) ; 
Manipur (4. O. Hume) ; Tippera. 
The plate of Siphia cacharensis does not agree with the description. 
The latter, however, is very good, and leaves no doubt as to the 
identity of the species. 
