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fates. 



Referring to my remarks on the genus Volvocivora, pp. 

 205-207, I note that all our specimens from the Malayan 

 Peninsula are too small for fimbriat a, the wings varying from 

 36 to 38. Whether the true fimbriata from Java, with the 

 wing 4-3 to 4-1 (misprinted 4*3 to 4-4, ante p. 205), really 

 occurs in the Malayan Peninsula I cannot say; at any rate the 

 other smaller species is the only one we have met with, and is 

 common from Malacca to Johore. This smaller species should 

 apparently stand as cubninata, Hay, and V. Schierbrandi, V. 

 Pelz., appears to be identical. Count Salvador! informs us that 

 the abrupt separation of the darker grey of throat and breast 

 from the lighter color of the abdomen, which was supposed to 

 be characteristic of the species, is merely due to the type speci- 

 men being an extremely bad one, and that in good specimens 

 the transition is gradual. Curiously enough iu one of our 

 specimens also a very bad one this same apparent sharp defini- 

 tion of the much darker color of the throat and breast is very 

 noticeable, but in other specimens nothing of the kind occurs ; 

 and, as far as I can make out, this species chiefly differs from 

 fimbriata in its markedly smaller size. 



The following is the original (and not very satisfactory) 

 description of culminatus (Madras Journal of Science, Vol. 

 XIII., 1844-1845 p. 157.):— "I received this species from 

 Malacca, and it seems to differ from any that have as yet been 

 described. General cast of the plumage iron-grey, uniform 

 on the head ; back of the neck and back, under parts and up- 

 per tail-coverts : lighter, speckled and striated with white ; a 

 black mark from the base of the bill to the eye; primaries 

 slightly edged with white, secondaries more so ; under surface 

 of the wings uniform hair-brown without white ; two middle 

 tail feathers cinerous brown, tipped with white ; bill, moderate 

 not compressed, and high ; bill and feet black. 



Hitherto we have only procured Butalis grisola, the Eu- 

 ropean Spotted Grey Flycatcher, (described S. F., III., 467) at 

 the foof of the Sukit Pass near the northern boundary of Ladak, 

 at Sambhur, Jodbpur, Anadra in Sirohi, Northern Guzerat, Kutch, 

 Kattiawar, and Scinde. On the 28th of September we shot a 



