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because I was under the impression that Malayan specimens 

 differed similarly. This, however, does not seem to be the case, 

 and having now seen a second Ceylon specimen, presenting the 

 same specific characters as the first, I desire to propose for it 

 provisionally the name of Phodilus assimilis. 



Theke is a species to which I desire to call the attention of 

 all Indian ornithologists, as I have been quite unable to make 

 it out. 



It is mentioned in Blyth's commentary on Dr. Jerdon's " Birds 

 of India/' Ibis 1867, 23, as follows. 



" Suya gangetica, Jerdon, in lit. sp. nov. 



" Plain brown above, rufescent on the head ; lower parts, 

 much paler; throat, whitish. Wing, 225 inches; tail, 3*75 

 inches. 



"Common along the upper Ganges." 



I have never been able to procure a specimen, or even to hear 

 of any one else who had. 



I should be very thankful for any information in regard to 

 this species. 



Suthora daflaensis, God.-Aust, (S. F., IV, 490), is, it 

 would seem, now admitted by its describer to be identical with 

 his S. munipurensis, (S. F., IV, 216) ; at least so says Gould 

 in the last number (XXIX) of the Birds of Asia. 



Mr. Howard Saunders has merited the gratitude of all 

 ornithologists, by his very valuable monographic note on the 

 Sterninae, (P. Z. S. 1876, 638). 



I shall notice this in detail hereafter, as there seems to me 

 to be a good deal to add as regards distribution, and there are a 

 good many points in regard to which I am unable to agree with 

 Mr. Saunders, but at present I only desire to note, that the bird 

 that he has figured, pi. LXI, figure 2, as Anous melanogenys, 

 is, in my opinion, beyond all doubt, A. leucocapillus, while al- 

 though the bird that he figures (pi. cit, figure, 3) as leucocapillus, 

 may be one stage of melanogenys ; it differs altogether, both from 

 Mr. Gray's original figure of, and from a specimen I identify 

 as, the true melanogenys. 



Mr. Elliot seems to me to be in error in uniting, as he does 

 in his monograph of the Phasianidaa, Pucrasia castanea, Gould, 

 with Duvauceli of Temminck, P. C. 545. 



Mr. Elliot begins by saying " Duvaucel's Pucras pheasant 

 was figured and described by Temminck in the Planches Colo- 

 riees as long ago as the year 1834." 



