500 NOTES. 
I, SoME YEARS AGO recorded having obtained a specimen from 
Oudh, of a bird which Dr. Jerdon identified for me as Luscinia 
major, of Europe. Later obtaining specimens of this bird trom 
Europe, I found that the Indian specimen was quite distinct. [ 
then thought that it might be Daulias Hafizi of Severstoy, which, 
& priori, was much more likely to occur in India. I submitted the 
specimen to Mr. W. T. Blanford, who informs me that it is close 
to Hafizi, but should, perhaps, more properly, owing to its larger 
size, be identified with L. Golzti, described from Turkestan by Dr. 
Cabanis, J. F. Orn, 1873, p. 79. According to Dr. Cabanis this 
species is structurally characterized by having the first or unde- 
veloped primary a little longer than the primary greater coverts, 
by having the second primary a trifle shorter than the fifth (in 
my specimen they are almost equal), and by having the fourth 
primary decidedly shorter than the third. 
The dimensions of my specimen taken from the skin are :— 
Length, 7”-5; wing, 3”°7; tail, 3”°5; tarsus, 1”-1; bill at 
front, 0”°65. 
The type specimen Mr. Blanford mentions (Zoology of Per- 
sia, Aves, p. 171) measured—Wing, 3°8; tail, 3°32; tarsus, 
1:15; and bill at front, 0°72. 
These measurements agree sufficiently well, and the following 
is a description of my bird :— 
Lores pale fulvous; forehead, crown, and the whole upper 
parts, except the wings and tail, a dull reddish brown, perhaps 
slightly redder on the head and paler on the rump; the tail fea- 
thers slightly brighter and less brown, more approaching to a 
dull chestnut or ferruginous. 
The upper surface generally is decidedly more rufous than in 
Daulias Hajizi, as figured by Mr. Blanford, but the tail and upper 
tail coverts agree precisely with his figure. The whole of the 
lower parts are fulvous white, purest on the abdomen, and much 
suffused with brown on the breast; the sides and flanks are 
brown; there is a trace of a pale streak over and behind the eye ; 
the ear coverts are mingled pale fulvous and brown. My spe- 
cimen is a bad one, and I cannot be quite certain of these parts. 
The wings are hair brown; the primaries and secondaries, 
the winglet and greater primary coverts all narrowly margined 
with pale somewhat rufescent olivaceous ; the secondary greater 
coverts are more broadly margined and tipped witha paler shade 
of this same color, forming a noticeable paler patch on the wing ; 
the tertiaries are much suffused with the color of the back ; 
the wing lining and axillaries are white, with a slight fulvous 
tinge. 
This specimen does not quite agree in all particulars with 
Dr. Cabanis’ brief remarks, doc. cit., but I do not think that any 
