276 Mr. H. Seebohm’s Corrections of 
(Pall.), of which he is now satisfied that his supposed new 
species was a somewhat small example. 
Lusciniopsis hendersoni, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Se. Phil. 1858, 
p. 194. This bird has been identified by Dresser and Hume 
with the Turkestan and Indian species. I have carefully 
examined the type in the Museum of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences in Philadelphia, and find it to be an example of 
Locustella minuta, Swinh., which I take to be only a form 
of L. lanceolata (Temm.). The Turkestan and Indian species 
must therefore stand as L. straminea (Severtz.). 
Arundinax davidiana, Verr. N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vi. p. 37 
(1870). The type of this alleged species is in the Museum 
of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and is, in my opinion, a 
specimen of Horornis fortipes, Hodgs., or, as I prefer to call 
the bird, Cettia fortipes (Hodgs.). It is described, and not 
badly figured, in David et Oustalet’s Oiseaux de la Chine, 
pl.20. Ifthe Formosan species, Horeites robustipes, Swinh., 
be, as I maintain, the same as the Himalayan bird, Abbé 
David’s examples from Chinese Thibet are specially interesting 
as coming from an intermediate locality. 
Horornis fulviventris, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. 
Mus.) of Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pl. 63, no. 878—which 
name was first published by Hodgson in Gray’s Zool. Misc. 
p- 82 (1844), and accompanied for the first time with a 
description of the bird in an article contributed by Hodg- 
son to the P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 31—must sink into a synonym 
of Phylloscopus fuscatus, Blyth, a name which dates from 
1842. Hodgson’s type, which was originally in the India 
Museum, and is now in the British Museum, is conclusive 
upon the question. I am inclined to think that Hodgson 
was right in separating this species from Phylloscopus. In 
their general style of coloration, their large bastard primary, 
and their somewhat graduated tail, P. fuscatus (Blyth), P. 
schwarzi (Radde), P. armandi (Milne-Edwards), P. indicus 
(Jerdon), and P. fuliginiventris (Hodgs.) are aberrant Phy/l- 
loscopi, and appear to me to be more nearly allied to Lusci- 
niola melanopogon (Termm.). This genus might consist of the 
following species :—Lusciniola aedon (Muscicapa aedon, Pall.) ; 
