ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. Dis 
gracilis, which I have from Palestine taken by Canon Tristram, 
are as red as those of a Prinia. D. lepidus is a true Drymoti- 
pus, and should not be generically separated because it is streaked. 
The note is exceedingly like that of J. inornatus, but weaker, 
and its habits are very similar. 
553.—Hippolais rama, Sykes. 
I examined the type which Mr. Dresser correctly deter- 
mined as the larger and greyer tm_species. I had specimens of 
both species with me for comparison. 
Phyllopneuste coronata, DSc" Ss 
Is very like egu/oides occipitalis, but with darker and 
rather stronger bill. lt is a rather brighter colored bird, and 
the lower tail coverts are pale yellow. The latter point is the 
characteristic distinction. It is quite distinct from R. cccipi- 
talis, with which it has been erroneously united. 
Phylloscopus Brehmii, Homeyer. 
I have seen the type, which is P. rufa. The small Chiff- 
chatfs are only the females, and not distinct species. 
Phylloscopus brevirostris, Strickland. 
I have examined the type, and it is beyond all doubt only 
P. rufa. The wing formula of this species is subject to slight 
variation, which includes the proportions of the primaries of 
P. brevirostris. 
Phylloscopus abyssinicus, Blanford. 
Is also P. rufa in fine pure spring plumage. 
It was very satisfactory to find that the types of the three 
new Chiff-chaffs—Brehmi, brevirostris, and abyssinicus, were 
founded upon some of the phases of P. rufa. I myself had 
described very small female examples of rufa as P. Tristrami ; 
but the Editor of the Zbis did not insert my paper as soon as 
I could have wished and I recalled it. Iam glad now that the 
delay took place, or there would have been one more useless 
synonym of the Chiff-chaff. 
Some years since I came to the conclusion that Phylloscopus 
tristis, Blyth, was identical with P. rufa. had found that 
an example of P. brevirostris, sent me by Canon Tristram, was 
apparently identical with P. rufa. Blyth, in Jbis for 1867, 
page 25, suggests the identity of tristis and brevirostris; Jerdon 
also (Birds of India, page 873) refers to the identification 
on Blyth’s authority; and as brevirostris was clearly rufa, 
I erroneously jumped to the conclusion that tristis = rufa. Close 
