NOTES. 415 



I hear from home that my Cettia Stoliczka, S. F., Vol. II., 

 p. 520, must stand as C. albiventris, Severst. My Propasser 

 Stoliczka, [torn, cit., p. 523,) is admitted to be a perfectly new 

 and distinct species, as is Podoces Biddulphi, (toni t cit., p. 503), 

 which, with the other three known species of this genus, Panderi, 

 Hendersoni and humilis, has been figured quite recently by Mr. 

 Gould in his Birds of Asia. 



vEgithalus Sioliczka, (torn, cit., p. 521,) is said to be one of 

 Severstov's new JEgithali, but it is not certain which. 



Turtxir Stoliczlcce (torn, cit., p. 519,) is, Mr. Sharpe informs 

 me, T. intercedens. This I cannot make out. The only intercedens 

 of which I can find any record is Brehms, which Mr. Gray gives 

 as identical with risorius, Bly th, from Ceylon, India, Palestine 

 and Smyrna, but distinct from risorius, Lin., which he assigns 

 to E. Africa, China, Persia and Nepal. Now very decidedly the 

 large Yarkand race, which I have named Stoliczkce, occurs no- 

 where in Nepal, or Cej'lon or India, and is, on the contrary, con- 

 spicuously distinct from the species which we here call risorius, 

 Lin., aud which is so common throughout India, — (See also, 

 supra, p. 329, and Vol. II., p. 536.) 



Amongst other birds sent me for identification by Captain 

 Butler, aud obtained by him in the neighbourhood of Deesa, are 

 Aedon familiaris, Menetries, and Sterparola cinerea, Bonap., the 

 occurrence of both of which I had previously recorded, on the 

 strength of specimens collected for me by Dr. King and ob- 

 tained by myself in the neighbourhood of Aboo and Jodhpoor, 

 and besides these an entire novelty to our Indian Avifauna, viz., 

 Lanius (Enneoctonus) collurio, Lin. This is an important disco- 

 very and one on which Captain Butler, one of the most patient 

 and indefatigable of our field ornithologists may be well congra- 

 tulated. It adds another to the growing list of essentially 

 western forms, that unknown elsewhere in the empire occur at 

 one season or another in Northern Guzerat, Sindh, the desert 

 portion of Rajpootana, and the Trans-Indus Punjaub. 



Writing from Hissar, Captain C. H. T. Marshall says : " I 

 have recently shot here, a bird which you say is very rare in 

 the Punjaub, viz., Glareola orientalis ; I shot four specimens, 

 but have not been able to meet with any more/' This is only 

 the second instance (S. F., II. 465) on record of the occurrence 

 of this species in the Punjaub, and I hare no knowledge (see 

 S. F., II., 285,) of its having been met with in Sindh, Rajpootana, 

 or the Central Provinces, although in all of these it may occur 

 as a rare straggler, as we now know that it does in the Pun- 

 jaub. 



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