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though a most distinct and well-marked species, indeed perhaps 

 the most distinct of all the Pipits, and though well characterized 

 by the describers, still probably, according to one school, lacks a 

 name. This bird is clearly congeneric with Antlius montanus, 

 of Koch, of 1816, which= A spinoletta, and according to one 

 school, Koch's dead name can never be re-applied to any species 

 of the genus. I think they are quite wrong, and that their 

 views are directly opposed to the spirit of rule (q) Pt. II, 

 section A, of the Code, and therefore, do not propose any fresh 

 name for the species. Jerdon's original name for the species, 

 vujescens, could not stand, being a misapplication of one of 

 Temminck's. 



This species is confined to the Nilgheris, or may possibly 

 extend from these to some of the other neighbouring hill 

 groups and ranges of Southern India. It is even on the Blue 

 Mountains far from common, and there are probably a few speci- 

 mens of it in Europe. This may account for the extraordinary 

 manner in which European ornithologists have calmly united this 

 with one or other Anthus, to which it bears no resemblance. 



It is perhaps, though so very limited in its range, one of the 

 best characterized and most distinct of all the Pipits. Once 

 seen it can never be mistaken. 



Although Dresser has utterly ignored the matter and 

 has stated that there is no record of the Hawfinch's occurring 

 in India, I felt quite sure that there was, and I now find that 

 I duly announced in the Ibis for 1869 (p. 456), that I had 

 obtained two Hawfinches from Attock. 



The following remarks by Major God-Austen from 

 J. A. S. B., XL VII, 16, 1878, deserve to be reproduced, 

 although I personally, with a large series of both Assam and 

 Tenasserim birds, at least a dozen of each, did not see my way 

 to separating the two. 



" I have compared a specimen from Sadiya of the bird hither- 

 to considered as Turdinus brevicaudatus with the type in the 

 Calcutta Museum, obtained by Col. Tickell in Tenasserim, 

 and find that they are after all distinct. The Tenasserim. 

 form is very strong rufous on the breast, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts ; the spots on the secondaries are small and triangular, 

 whereas in that from Sadiya they are large and tip the feather. 

 The throat is also greyer in this last. In the Ibis for 1876, 

 p. 354, Lord Tweeddale remarks on the highly-colored drawing 

 by Tickell of T. brevicaudatus, and Mr. Gould has very pro- 

 bably figured an Assam bird, which should stand properly 

 under the title of T. striatus, Walden, described in Ann. 



