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As a second nest with two eggs was discovered on July 3, it seems probable 

 this bird has two broods. 



The Slaty-bagkbd Forktail — {Henlcurus schistaceus). One nest was 

 found on May 20 at an elevation of about four thousand feet in a mossy bank 

 by the side of a small stream with three fully fledged young and this was the 

 only pair of these birds seen. I was able to identify these birds perfectly 

 while feeding their young and hope to secure their eggs next year, the common 

 forktail here (H. maculatus) frequently builds on a last year's nest or actually 

 by the side of it. 



The Purple Thrush— (Coc^oa purpurea). One nest with two fresh eggs 

 was found on a tree sloping across a nullah, about twenty feet up. The nest 

 was unfortunately lost on the way home but appeared very like that of other 

 thrushes, moss externally and lined with black rootlets. The eggs are rather 

 long pointed ovals, greenish white thickly marked all over with reddish 

 brown and measured 1'25 by '87. The bird is very rare up here. 



The Large Yellow-naped Woodpecker {Chrysoplilegma flavinucTia). 

 This bird is by no means uncommon in the lower valleys about here but 

 although I watched several pairs digging what were apparently nest-holes these 

 were all deserted and the only eggs secured were a hard-set pair from a hole 

 thirty feet up in a decayed oak. They are of the usual woodpecker type and 

 measure 1*25 by "87. They were taken on May 30. 



Jeoukote, N.-W. p., 



July 28th, 1902. S. L. WHYMPER. 



No. XXXI.— A CORRECTION. TURDINULUS ROBERTI. 

 SUPPRESSION OF CORYTHOCIGHLA SQUAMATA (Baker). 



I find that my Corythocichla squamata is only the true Turdinulus roberti 

 and my name must therefore be suppressed. 



The bird, No. 186 of Oates' " Fauna of India " is on the other hand not 

 T. roherti but T. exul {vide appendix to F. of India). I most unfortunately 

 had not read this appendix when I named my bird and seeing that it was not 

 roberti re-named it squamata. The two genera Tjurdimlus and Corythocichla 

 are, I should say, in my own opinion, synonymous. Oates separates Turdinulus 

 from Drymoicataphus on account of its shorter tail and Corythocichla on 

 account of its squamated plumage. As however Turdinulus has the same curious 

 lax, squamated plumage as Corythocichla has, and the tails of the three 

 genera all vary in degree I do not see how the two genera Turdinulus and 

 Corythocichla can be separated. 



E. C. STUART BAKER, F. Z, S., &c. 



August 1902. 



No. XXXll.— OCCURRENCE OF THE "MANDARIN DUCK" IN INDIA, 



To Mr, Stevens of the Rungagora Tea Estate in Dibrugarh belongs the 

 honour of obtaining the first Indian specimen of the Mandarin duck {Aex 



