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present or to an undescribed species. Mr. Blanford inclines to 
this latter view, but until Iam able to examine a really good 
series of European europaus, I shall not attempt to deal with 
these. 
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Magsor Gopwin-AusTEN says. A. & M. N. H. July 1876 :— 
“T take the earliest opportunity in this paper fo suppress the 
species (Garrulax albosuperciliaris) figured in the ‘Journ. 
Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1874, and described by me in the ‘ Proc. 
Zool. Soe.’ for 1874,” “ (vide 8S. F., I11., p 393.) ’Itis, I find, the 
same as G. sannio, Swinhoe. The only variation I noticed in 
the single specimen with which I have compared it, was a slight 
difference in the shade of coloration of the upper surface; this 
is one often seen in birds taken on the extreme limits of their 
range.” 
Dr. JeRDON, it will be remembered, says nothing in his great 
work, ‘The Birds of India, ”’ of ever procuring an adult Larus 
fuscus in India, but Mr. Blyth remarked (Jbis, 1867, p. 176) 
that Dr. Jerdon must have forgotton the adult specimen sent 
by him from the Bay of Bengal. 
Dr. Jerdon himself later said that he could not remember 
ever getting any such specimen, but that if Blyth said so, 
he was doubtless right. 
There is in the As. Soc. Museum a specimen of Larus 
fuscus which bears a label in Dr. Anderson’s hand-writing, 
“ Bay of Bengal, T. C. Jerdon, 1842.” Itis to be presumed that 
Dr. Anderson had good reasons for thus identifying this spe- 
cimen; but it is notorious that not a few of the tickets had been 
changed and lost after Mr. Blyth gave up charge of the Museum, 
and had also got loose from their stands, so that one cannot 
rely too implicitly on this identification. 
This specimen, it should be noted, is alovely one. No one, 
I think, who has ever received many skins from Dr. Jerdon, 
will, for one moment, believe that he collected it himself; for 
it has all the appearance, even after these many years, of hav- 
ing been originally prepared, as well as subsequently mounted 
by a professional taxidermist. I have acquired in the course 
of years a certain technical knowledge of skins, and I believe 
this one to be European. 
Again, if Dr. Jerdon really procured this in the Bay of 
Bengal, it is curious that he should have remembered nothing 
about it, because this specimen is in full summer adult plumage, 
and no one who had ever shot the comparatively light grey 
Gulls (ridibundus, brunetcephulus, leucopheus, ichthetus, or even 
