498 “NOTES. 
I have for years had specimens which I referred to fulviventris, 
Hodgson, one of them labelled by Jerdon Horornis flaviventris. 
This it certainly was not, and I referred it to fulviventris, but 
now that I have had an opportunity of comparing all my 
specimens, I see that my supposed fulviventris and my Horeites 
brunnescens are identical. 
Whether H. fulviventris, Hodgson, is a good species, and if so, 
identical with my H. drunnescens, or whether it is, as Blyth 
considers, identical with his own Phylloscopus fuscatus, only 
an examination of the type specimens in the British Museum 
(if they still exist there), can finally enable us to determine, 
but in the meantime it may be useful to call attention to the 
matter. 
Iris wortuy of note that Mr. Mandelli has lately obtain- 
ed specimens in the Bootan Doars of Diceum olivaceum, Walden, 
which will be found accurately described, 8. F., Vol. IIL., p. 408. 
Thave only to add that it differs from D. virescens, nobis, not 
only in the particulars noted by Lord Walden, but -also in its 
much shorter bill. 
AT THE PAGE ABoveE quoted I reproduced Lord Walden’s 
description of a new Ixos, I. annectans. Subsequently compar- 
ing this description with Jxos Davisoni, nobis, I cannot doubt 
that the two arethe same species—the only difference being that 
I described from a very beautiful specimen, a perfectly adult 
male, while Lord Walden probably described from a younger 
bird. He fails to notice the narrow bright orange line over the 
lores, but this I find, after examining other specimens collected 
by Dr. Armstrong, is only aprarent in really good skins. The 
bird will stand, I think, as 1. Davisoni. 
Mr. R. THompson, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Chanda, 
Central Provinces, writes: “ On the 27th of March, I shot, and 
indeed saw, for the first time, a specimen of Harpactes fasciatus. 
I found it in the Ahiri forests whilst going up a nullah fringed 
with lofty trees. This was after a heavy storm of wind and rain 
the previous day. I noticed the bird flying across the nullah, 
the flightso much resembling that of a Dendrocitta, that J at first 
supposed it to belong to-that species. Presently the bird sat 
motionless, and Isaw the peculiar position and bill of Harpactes, 
with the Himalayan species of which I am familiar. 
I had only an express rifle, and was obliged to shoot it with 
this, bringing it down with one side blown to atoms, the other 
