and Rectifications of Si/nonymy. 43 



P. affinis, Gould (Birds of Asia), is very decidedly the young 

 of P, longicauda, which I formerly designated as P. ?;?n'Ji?/2i/s^a^. 

 I have examined the type-specimen of P. affinis in the Derby 

 Museum of Liverpool. 



Artamus cucullatus, Nicholson (P. Z. S. 1851^ p. 195, Aves, 

 pi. 43), is S Sylvia orphea, Temm. ( $ Curruca jerdoni, nobis, 

 passim), being founded upon a bad native drawing which Dr. 

 Sclater kindly showed to me. 



Ixus fisquetii, Eydoux and Souleyet (Voy. de la Bonite, Atlas), 

 is Brachypodius poiocephalus, Jerdon. 



Merula leucogaster, nobis (J. A. S. xvi. p. 153), is founded upon 

 a drawing of a dark-coloured adult male of Tardus atrogularis, 

 Natterer. 



TepJirodornis grisola, nobis, is Hyloterpe philomela, Cabanis, 

 Hylocharis philomela, Temm., which Mr. Wallace considers akin 

 to Pachycephala. This bird I once shot near Calcutta, and it 

 lias been received from Arakan and the Andaman Islands; but 

 it belongs chiefly to the Malayan region. 



Butalis hypogrammica, Wallace (Ibis, 1862, p. 350), is Hemi- 

 chelidon griseosticta, Swinhoe (Ibis, 1861, p. 330). 



Timalia pileata of M'Clelland's list (P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161), 

 as shown by the drawing of it at Eyfe House, is Stachyris rufi- 

 ceps, nobis; but the former might also be well obtained in 

 Assam, as it occurs in the Nipal tarai, and is common in the 

 Bengal Sundarbans. T. pileata, from Java, I find to be paler 

 than in India, the tail browner, with the barring scarcely per- 

 ceptible. 



Abrornis melanops, Jerdon and Blyth (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 200), 

 is A. schisticeps, Hodgson (nee schisticeps, BL, which is xantho- 

 schistos, Hodgson). 



adults of both sexes corresponding with that of 0. galhula, except that 

 O. kundoo has always a black mark behind the eye, and the bill is larger 

 and differently shaped from that of the European species. In all the 

 Orioles known to me, the sexes are alike when fully adult, except that the 

 females are not quite so bright upon the back : they breed (the females at 

 least) before assuming the mature livery. ( Vide Mr. Swinhoe's remarks 

 on the plumage of Oriolus chinensis.) 



