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types with a tidy little series of Corydalla stnolata, C. rufula, 

 P. arboreus, P. maculatus, and A. campestris of my own to refer 

 to ; and, if possible, I will make Sykes's type clearly out. I 

 only hope that these valuable types have been properly looked 

 to all these years, and have not been reduced to dust by moths. 

 In the latter case, I shall have the best of it, and not my friend 

 Mr. Hume. 



Motacilla HodgSOni, vide the second foot-note, p. 246.— 

 If Mr. Hume has luzoniensis in full breeding plumage identical 

 with the full breeding plumage of M. Hodgsoni, then his bird 

 is not luzoniensis but Hodgsoni. No two birds could be more 

 thoroughly distinct than these two Wagtails.* The eye of 

 Hodgsoni is invariably set in a diamond-shaped patch of white 

 even in the winter season, while that of luzoniensis is not. 

 The latter' has an excess of white about the face, while 

 Hodgsoni and personata have the least white about the face 

 of all Wagtails, except M. madraspatana. No ; whatever 

 the White-faced Wagtail is, it is not M. Hodgsoni. Look how 

 very different even the young birds are. 



I forgot in the proper place to note Phjlloscopus fuscatus, 

 vide p. 139. I once shot one near Etawah among some 

 thick babool trees on the banks of the canal. I saw many 

 in jungle bordering a jheel near Dumraon. It frequents, by 

 preference, the dampest of woods, where it was impossible to 

 walk without getting occasionally over the shoe tops in 

 water. Here Phj/lloscopus tristis was more common even than 

 P. fuscatus, and I shot several in mistake for the other bird. 



I compared my examples with several sent from Sikhim by 

 Mandelli, and I found them to agree perfectly, and therefore 

 don't believef in the distinctness of P. fulviventer, vide " Nest 

 and Eggs," p. 329. This species varies very much in the tone 

 of colour, depending upon the locality and the season of the 

 year. While one will be of a fine dark brown, another will 

 be quite pale in comparison. 



W. E. B. 



* This is begging the question. — Ed. 



f Batfulviveitter is structurally entirely distinct; it is not a Phjlloscopus at all. — Ed. 



