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viz., in the Western Bhotan Doars ; but up to this present mo- 

 ment, Mr. Mandelli's specimen, Avhich is the one figured (or 

 made a figure of) in our plate, is, I believe, unique. 



At page 496, Vol. II., I noticed that I had sent home a spe- 

 cimen of a Locustella that occurs in Sumatra and Tenasserim, 

 which I considered to be the true lanceolata of Temminck, for 

 identification, in consequence of Lord Walden's having identi- 

 fied "another species, my L. subsignata from the Andamans, as 

 Temminck's bird. The specimen I sent home was from Tenas- 

 serim. Mr. Sharpe writes : — " As far as I can make out, your bird 

 is the true lanceolata of Temminck, and Mr. Dresser, who has 

 lately been working up this genus, concurs in this view." 



It is remarkable that we have not only obtained Brachjurus 

 megarhjnchus, Schleg, during the summer, as high up in Te- 

 nasserim as Amherst (S. F., Vol. II., p. 475), but numerous 

 specimens were this year obtained in the Delta of the Irrawady. 

 This species appears to be really as widely distributed as the 

 nearly allied, though much smaller billed B. moluccensis, Mull, 

 and it is probably the extreme similarity of the plumage of these 

 two species which has led to the one remaining so long over- 

 looked. 



I am indebted to Miss Cockburn for a superb series, nearly 

 fifty specimens I think, of a little bird which, though possibly 

 common enough in the hilly portions of Southern India, 

 is apparently rare in collections — I mean Mania pectoralis. 

 Together with the birds, she sent me also their young, which latter 

 have never yet, I believe, been described. These have the entire 

 upper surface a dull uniform somewhat chocolate brown, without 

 the slightest trace of the yellowish white shafts so conspicuous 

 on the whole upper part of the adult. Again, the chin, throat, 

 and breast, which in the adult are an uniform brown, so deep as 

 to be nearly black, are in the young a pale earthy brown, 

 with paler shafts, and faintly barred paler again. The rest of 

 the lower parts, which in fine specimens are uniformly salmon 

 colored, are in the young buffy, mottled and imperfectly barred 

 with brown. Altogether the } r oung would scarcely be recog- 

 nized as pertaining to the same species. 



Books and papers received. — "We have to acknowledge 

 with thanks the following books, pamphlets, and papers on 

 ornithological subjects, which have been kindly sent us by the 

 authors during the course of the past year. 



