456 NOTES. 



119.— Merops swinhoei, Hume, (S. F., II., 163, 1874), 



quinticolor, Vieill., Gould. B. of As., Pt. VIII., 



pi. 13 ; Jerd. B. of In. I., 208, et. auct. nee 



Vieill. 

 urica, Horsf, Gould, loc. cit, nee Horsf. 

 erythrocephalus, Gm. S. N., I., 463, apud Swinh. 



P. Z. S. 1871, 348, nee Gm. 

 leschenaulti, Vieill. apud Wald. ; Blyth's B. of 



Burma, J. A. S. B. 1875, Extra No. 72 ; 



Ibis, 1873, 301, nee Vieill. 



Mr. Brooks shot a specimen of Cyornis mandellii, Hume, 

 S. F., II., 510, at Muddapoor (on the E. I. R. in the Son- 

 thai Pergunnahs, 160 miles due N, W. of Calcutta as the 

 crow flies) on the 25th of September. He correctly identified 

 the species, but he remarks : " Though I at first set it down as 

 a Cyornis, I now think it should rather be referred to Aheonax. 

 The very short tarsus separates it from Cyornis, and the 

 coloration and the ring round the eye have an Alseonax-like 

 character/' 



I am not prepared to dispute this view at present, but 1 must 

 note that with the large number of species I now have of 

 Cyornis, from India, Burmah, and Malayana, this genus has 

 seemed to me quite to grade into Aheonax. 



Numerous specimens of this very marked and distinct species 

 have now been sent me from Sikhim and the Travancore Hills. 

 Mr. Brooks' specimen, procured at Muddapoor, was doubtless 

 migrating southwards. It does not seem to have turned up as? 

 yet in Ceylon, though it doubtless occurs in the hills there 

 during the cold season as it does in the neighbouring Assamboo 

 Hills. 



It is perfectly well known, though it has perhaps never 

 been noted in Stray Feathers, that Dr. Jerdon's No. 611, 

 Allotrius eenobarbus was not cenobarbus at all, which is a purely 

 Javan species, and moreover lumped two perfectly distinct 

 species, A. melanotis and A. xanthochloris, of Hodgson, which 

 were erroneously assumed to be male and female of the same 

 species. 



My friend, Mr. D. Gr. Elliot, has particularly pressed me 

 to examine Blyth's Porp/tyrula chloronotus, and let the public 

 know what it is. 



