NOTES, 455 



A specimen of that rare Bullfinch, P. evytTiaca, has recently 

 "been obtained for me by Mr. Gammie, (to whom I have repeat- 

 edly owed rare birds and eggs,) at Jor Bungala, close to Dar- 

 jeeling, at an elevation of between five and six thousand feet. 

 As far as I know this is the first specimen obtained since the 

 late lamented Captain Beavan shot the type on. Mount Tongloo. 

 Perhaps others have been met with, and if so, I should be glad to 

 learn the localities from, and dates on, which they were procured. 



Since this was in type, Mr. MandelM has also kindly sent 

 me a specimen of Beavan's Bull-finch, procured in April, also 

 in Sikbim. It would appear that it is only an occasional 

 migrant to Sikhim (just as Syrhaptes paradoxus is to England), 

 for we have for years maintained the keenest watch for this 

 species, and heretofore without success. 



Where can the home ©f this species be ? Swimhoe has not 

 met with it in China, nor Pere David ; nor any of the Russians 

 in Siberia, nor our people in Yarkand. However there is a 

 vast country outside the explorations of all these to whick 

 erythaca must somewhere belong.. 



Captain Butlee, writes to me that he cc observed two or 

 three specimens of Ceyx foidactyla at Khandalla, in May 187 1, 

 In a rocky nulla, running from the reversing station down the 

 ghats, through densely wooded jungles, the only ones I have ever 

 met with." 



In the Ibis for 1874, page 3, Mr. Sclater talks of Pacliyglossa 

 melanoxantha, which he places in Strickland's genus, Priono- 

 cfiiliis, as a Nepalese type, and as having escaped nearly every 

 subsequent collector. As far as his notes enable me to judge, 

 some of Hodgson's specimen -came from the interior of Sikhim, 

 and from this same district I have now seen many specimens. 

 Captain El wes, I know, obtained at least one which he gave 

 me, and which is still in my museum with others sent me by Cap- 

 tain Masson and Mr. Birch. P. vincwis, (of which I am indebt- 

 ed for specimens to Lieutanant W. Vincent Legge, R. A.,) from 

 Cejdon, is a true Prionochilus, which genus also includes, as Mr. 

 Selater points out, P. percussus (PI. col., 894, fig. 2), P. thoracicm 

 (PI. col., 600, figs. 1 and 2), P. maculatus, P. aureolimbatus 

 (P. Z. S., 1865, p. 477) from Celebes, and P. xanthopygius (Ibis, 

 1872, p. 379,) from Borneo, but I doubt somewhat, I must con- 

 fess, the propriety of uniting the Sikhim bird and discarding 

 the genus Pachyglosm* ...,,. 



