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Gleanings feom the Calcutta Mabket ... ... 479 



Ocycebos tickelli, Blyth ... ... ... 499 



Influence of Rainfall on Distbibution of Species, 



(with Map, colored, to show Iso-ombric Regions) ... 501 



Some Notes on Sindh Bieds, by S. Doig ... ... 503 



Pennant's Indian Zoology ... ... ... 506 



Notes on Phtlloscopus pltjmbeitabsus and P. vietdanus, 



by "W. Edwin Brooks ... ... ... 508 



Bieds occuebino in India, not desceibed in Jeedon oe 



HITHEETO IN " SlEAT EeATHEES" ... 511, 528 



Notes— 



Cyornis unicolor, distinct from C. cyanopolia ... 516 



Corvus cornix, common in the extreme N.-W., 



Trans-Indus ... ... ... 517 



Southern Yellow-naped Woodpecker, should stand 



as Chrysophlegma chlorigaster, Jerd. ... ib. 



The Indian Hoopoo, should stand as U. ceylonensis, 



Peich ... ... ... ... ib. 



Doubtful whether Gmelin's name melanicterus, 

 should stand for our Crested, Black and Chest- 

 nut Bunting ... ... ... ib. 



JBlyth's name leucopygialis, to stand for the Malayan 



Grey-rumped Spine Tail ... ... 518 



Distinctions between Dendrocitta assimilis, sinensis 



and himalayensis .... ... ... 519 



Haunts of Pratincola insignia ... ... ib. 



Hodgson's name Motacilla alboides, applies to M. 

 hodgsoni, of Gray, and Gould's name leucopsis, 

 must be applied to the species hitherto called 

 luzonensis ... ... ... ... ib. 



Blythipicus, the correct generic name of the 



Brown and Buddy Woodpeckers ... ... 520 



Anthus obscurus, not known to occur in India, 

 though Swinhoe asserted that it did ... ... 521 



The Editors of the Ibis on Mr. Dresser's and 

 other ornithologists' sins in Nomenclature .. 521 



A second specimen of Chaulelasmus angustirostris 



in the Calcutta Bazaar ... ... ... 523 



LETTEES TO THE EdITOE — 



Goisakius melanolophus in S. Travancore — Eeank 



W. BoTJBDILLON ... ... ... 524 



Woodcock at Tanna ; Pintail, Snipe and Bitterns — 

 J. D. Inveeaeity ... ... ... 525 



The five Western species recorded by Mr. Murray 

 from Sindh, not to be admitted in the Indian list 

 without further confirmation — W. T. Blanfoed... 526 



Parity of the Pink-headed Duck — Maurice Twee- 

 die ... ... ... ... 527 



Index ... ... ... ... ... i 



