DESCRIBED BY MR. BROOKS. 99 



Mr. Brooks' Phylloscopus sindianus is in ray opinion a perfectly 

 good species. 



The only species for which it could be mistaken are tristis 

 and neglectus, but as Mr. Brooks correctly points out it cannot 

 be mistaken for tristis wheu carefully examined, and from 

 neglectus it is separated at once by its superior size and conspi- 

 cuously larger bill. I cannot doubt that this is a perfectly 

 good and distinct species. I have recently had reason to 

 believe that this is a permanent resident of, and breeds in, 

 Sindh. 



A. 0. H. 



litotes on torkhta hnriata, llgtlt. 



By Henry Seebohm. 



By the kindness of Mr. Wardlaw-Ramsay the Thrushes in 

 the Tweeddale collection have been sent to me for comparison 

 with those in the British Museum and in my own collection. 

 Some of the results of the examination of so large a series 

 may be interesting to the readers of Stray Feathers. I pro- 

 pose in the present paper to treat of the species allied to 

 Geocichla citrina, (Lath.), but which have no white on the winor- 

 coverts. Of these there appear to be three fairly marked spe- 

 cies. 



Geocichla innotata, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., XV., p. 370 (1846), 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., XVI., p. 146 (1847); Walden, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 139. This species is represented by two examples in the 

 Tweeddale collection — one apparently a female, having the upper 

 back suffused with olive, labelled Malacca, Maicy, January 

 1868, measuring 4*8 in length of wing, and having the second 

 primary equal to the sixth ; the other, also a female, labelled 

 ? Karin Nee, 1st April 1874, Wardlaw-Ramsay, measures 

 4*55 in length of wing, and has the second primary longer 

 than the sixth. Both these skins agree in having the rich dark 

 orange chestnut head of G. albogularis, Blyth, and both agree 

 in having the paler orange chestnut under-parts of G. anda- 

 manensis, Walden, with the throat, as in that species, scarcely 

 paler than the breast. The under-parts of both these species — 

 G. innotata, Blyth, and G. andamanensis, Walden — scarcely 

 differ from those of G. citrina, (Lath.) 



Geocichla albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng., XVI., p. 146 

 (1847) ; Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 138, is represented by eight 

 skins from the Nicobar Islands — four males, three females, and 



