NOTES, 505 
With reference to the above remarks I may note that Mr. 
Blanford, who was with Dr. Jerdon at the time the type was 
procured, is quite certain that it was obtained on an island 
in the Irrawaddy, opposite Thyetmyo. 
I have recently received a specimen from Mr. Mandelli, 
obtained in the Bhootan Doars in January, which is probably 
Major Godwin-Austen’s bird, and possibly Dr. Jerdon’s. Dr. 
Jerdon’s original description will be found quoted, S.F. 
Vol., IIT., p. 115. 
The specimen received from Mr. Mandelli agrees fairly in 
some respects. with Dr. Jerdon’s description, but it differs in 
some important particulars. In the first place it is not pale 
reddish brown above, but a rather dark ferruginous brown, and 
the color is not deepest on the wings and tail, but much deep- 
est on thehead, and brighter and more ferruginous on the wings 
and tail. Then I should not call it beneath whitish, tinged 
on the lower part of the breast, abdomen, and flanks with 
pale fulvescent, but I should say, chin, throat, and upper breast, 
pale smoky grey; the rest of the lower parts, brownish buff, 
deeper colored, and slightly more ferruginous on flanks and 
lower tail coverts. ‘ 
Besides this, the bill is scarcely deeper than in Pyctorhis 
sinensis, and could hardly, [ should think, have given grounds 
for Dr. Jerdon’s remark that this species was closely allied to 
the Paradozornis group. Undoubtedly, the dimensions coin- 
cide very nearly, and the hoary grey forehead and streak 
over the eye is a very noteworthy point of resemblance, and 
on the whole, although, as noticed, the description given by Dr. 
Jerdon does not absolutely coincide with our specimen, I do 
not think it would be expedient to describe it as different 
until the original type can be compared. 
It witt be remembered that, in opposition to the views held 
by Dr. Jerdon, Mr. Blyth, Mr. Brooks, and others, I have held 
(S. F., Vol. I., p. 494) that Hodgson’s Abrornis chloronotus was 
Blyth’s Reguloides or Abrornis maculipennis, and had therefore 
precedence of this latter, while, according to the authorities 
above mentioned, Hodgson’s chloronotus was only a synonym of 
Reguloides proregulus. 
Mr. Brooks now writes :— 
“‘T examined Hodgson’s ‘ type’ said to be of Abrornis chloro- 
notus. It is maculipennis; so were three other old skins of 
Hodgson’s labelled chloronotus ; one of his labelled proregulus 
was true proregulus. 
