74 A ROUGH TENTATIVE LIST OF THE BIRDS OF INDIA. 



C^anocinchs, (Nests and Eggs, Rough Draft, 226, 1873). Type, 



Tm^us c^anus, Lin. 

 Molpastes, (S. F., I., 378, 1873). Type, Muscicapa hcemorrhousa, 



Gm. 

 Turdinulus, (S. F. VI, 235, 1878). Type, Turdinulus robertij 



God.-Aust. Sf Wald. 

 Blanfordius, (S. F., I., 300, 1873). Type, JBlan/ordius striatulus, 



Hume, 

 Dissemuroides, (S. F., I., 408, 1873). Type, Bissemuroides di- 



cruriformis, Hume. 

 Heteroglaua, (S. F., I., 467, 1873). Type, Heteroglaux blewiltij 



Hume. 

 Heterorhynchus, (S. F., I., 415, 1873 ; V., 238, ). Type, 



Heterorhynchus humii, Mandelli. 

 Pycnorhamphusy (Nests and Eggs, Rough Draft, 469, 1874). 



Type, Coccothraustes icterioides, Vig. 

 Pseudototanus, (S. F., VII., 488, 1879; IV., 347). Type, 



Totanus haughtonij Armstrong. 



All of these (except perhaps Blanfordius, which might possibly 

 be merged in Drymoeca, though I am not sure of this) indicate, 

 so far as I can at present judge, generic divisions, for which 

 no previous, unoccupied, name exists, and which, unless we agree 

 to lump nearly all modern generic divisions, are necessary and 

 proper to be retained. 



The specific synonymy I have partially worked up for about 

 two-thirds of the species, but in the remaining third, in which 

 I have merely followed other writers without any personal 

 investigation, there may, for all I know to the contrary, be any 

 number of errors. 



In the arrangement I still follow Dr. Jerdon ; firstly, be- 

 cause his is the only complete work on the Birds of India aa 

 yet available ; and, secondly, because defective and illogical as 

 bis classification, in some respects, doubtless is, I have as yet 

 met with no general system which did not appear to me to be 

 equally, or even more, open to objection, and I have hitherto had 

 no time to work out, in the light of modern research, a classi- 

 fication that I can myself approve. 



The simple numbers in this list are those of Dr. Jerdon's 

 work ; all species to which these are prefixed will be found 

 there described. Numbers compounded with bis, ter, Sfc, A, B, 

 &c., indicate (with some half dozen exceptions) species not 

 included by Dr. Jerdon, but which have been (more or less 

 satisfactorify) described in Stray Feathers. 



For the help of fellow-workers I have added, after each species, 

 references to some of the places in Jerdon's Birds of India 

 (Jerd.) and Stray Feathers (S. F.), at which it will be 

 found described, discriminated or discussed. 



