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If any one wants skins merely to learn by (tbey are all 

 correctly named), I shall be delighted to send them out of this 

 lot, one or two specimens of every species it contains. Only 

 I will not be at any expense about them. Those who want them 

 must pay the cost of their transit by bullock train to the 

 Umballa Railway station, whence they can be sent bearing by 

 Rail to any station indicated. 



If there should chance to be several applicants they will be 

 served in the order in which their applications are received, and 

 as the lot must contain single or at most two or three specimens 

 only of many species, the later applicants will receive fewer 

 species. 



Six weeks from the date of the issue of this notice, I shall 

 destroy all the skins not applied for up to that date. 



[ HASTEN to draw attention to a fact that I have only just dis- 

 covered, namely that my Suga albogularis, shot by Davison 

 on the east coast of Acheen, Sumatra, in January 1873 (S. F., 

 I., 459., 1873,) is apparently identical with Dr. Anderson's 

 Sitya super ciliaris, P. Z. S., 1871, p. 212, procured at Momien 

 in Yunan, and subsequently obtained by us on the higher slopes 

 of Mooleyit in Tenasserim (S. F., VI., 350). 



Sumatra being outside our limits, I have never looked at my 

 type from the day I described it, until the present time, when 

 it occurred to me to see what the bird was like, and, directly 

 I got it out, I recognized it. The only peculiarity of the 

 Sumatran specimen is, that the cap is greyer, and that it en- 

 tirely wants the peculiar black speckly streaky markings on 

 the breast. It has, however, quite as strongly marked as the 

 specimens which we identified as superciliaris, the grey mark- 

 ings on the sides of the breast, which are not alluded to in Dr. 

 Anderson's description, and of which no trace is shown in his 

 plate (Yunan Expeditions, pi. 51). But then in his descrip- 

 tion he tells us that the faintly-black-spotted breast is one of 

 the distinguishing characters of the species, although no trace 

 of this either is observable in the plate, so I attach no great 

 importance to this omission, from both plate and description, 

 of these rather conspicuous grey markings. The Mooleyit 

 and Sumatran specimens are clearly identical, but it is just 

 within the limits of possibility that they may represent a southern 

 representative species, and may be distinguishable from super- 

 ciliaris, but I do not think this likely, and the occurrence of 

 this Momien bird in Mooleyit and Sumatra is interesting. 

 Doubtless we shall later obtain it on some of the higher hills 

 of the Malay Peninsula. 



