270 A MONOGRAPH OF THE OINNYRIDxE 



— Cinnyris osiris (Finch) is recognised as a good species. 



We note that in his diagnosis our author says that this 

 species is " scarcely smaller " than bifasciata, while in the 

 text he says that it is constantly larger. 



pi. 3. Cinnyris zeylonica*. — The author does not recognise 



Nectarophila as of generic value, hut uses it later on for 



what he terms a "group/' 



Compared with the synonomy given by the Marquis of 



Tweeddale (Ibis, 1870, p. 37) we fiud he excludes Le 



sucrion, Levaillant, and Certhia cnrrucaria, Linn. 



The distribution of this species is not very accurately defined 

 in the text. It may be generally stated that this species is con- 

 fined to Ceylon, Southern and Eastern India. It does not occur 

 so far, as we know, in Sindh, Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajpootana, 

 the Punjab, the North- West Provinces, Oudh, Behar, the Central 

 India Agency, nor in the major portions of the Central 

 Provinces, though in these latter it has been observed occasionally 

 near Chanda, and is common in the Raipoor anh Sumbulpoor 

 districts. It does not extend into any part of British Burmah. 

 It is normally a bird of the heavier rainfall and better wooded 

 provinces, though it certainly occurs in the comparatively 

 dry uplands of the Deccan. It never ascends any of the 

 mountain ranges, to the best of our belief, to any considerable 

 elevation, but is essentially a bird of the plains country. With 

 this reservation its range may be said to include Ceylon, 

 Travancore, Cochin, the whole Madras Presidency, Mysore, 

 Hyderabad, the Bombay Presidency south of the 20th degree 

 N. Lat,, the Southern portions of Berar and the Central 

 Provinces to about the same latitude, Raipoor and the Eastern 

 States of these provinces, Orissa, the Tributary Mehals, Chota 

 Nagpoor and Lower Bengal west of the Burrumpooter. I have 

 never yet seen it from any of the districts east of this, e.g., 

 Chittagong, Cachar, Tipperah or Sylhet, though at Dacca, 

 immediately west of this river, it is common. Nor have I seen 

 it from Assam, though said to occur there, and though Godwin- 

 Austen records a specimen from the Khasya Hills. 

 —Anthoditeta rectirostris. — The author considers that the name 

 phceolhorax, Hartlaub, 1861, must be put aside for the older 

 title recthostris, Shaw, 1811, founded on Le Soui manga 

 a bee droit, And. et Vieill. The type specimen is in the 

 Museum of the Jardin des plautes Paris, and we are inform- 

 ed agrees perfectly. We had always hitherto [e.g. ante 142 

 n.) following numerous authorities, considered Shaw's 

 rectirostris as equivalent to singalensis, Gm.; but having 



* Wc priut in capitals the names of those species that occur within our limits. 



