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Catalogue, I have B. cerulescens from the Jaffna peninsula 
(including Point Pedro) only. B. longicaudata I found abun- 
dant at Jaffna, and my remarks as to its habit of perching 
on the backs of cattle are strictly correct. All these species 
were sent to Blyth and identified by him, and the specimens 
should be in Calcutta. 
Phylloscopus viridanus. Under this head the author states 
that he introduces the bird into the Ceylon list under my 
authority, and that I allude to a species Phyllopneuste mon- 
tanus, Blyth, no such species being in existence. If Capt. 
Legge will refer to Mr. Blyth’s catalogue, page 183, he will 
find Blyth gives the genus PuyLLopnEustTE; at page 184 he 
makes Puytioscopus a subgenus, and in the next page 
(No. 1105) he will see the bird to which I referred, dropping 
the subgenus, “ Ph. montanus, Blyth, J. A. S. xvii. Hab. 
Himalaya.” Ph. viridanus follows as No. 1106. I have 
bracketed them together with this note, “ Pt. Pedro, com- 
mon among low thick bushes; irides dark hair-brown.” 
Blyth identified al/ my Point-Pedro birds; so here is one, 
if it is a good species, which has been overlooked by Capt. 
Legge. 
Cinnyris lotenius. The writer quotes from Kelaart’s ‘ Pro- 
dromus,’ Cat. p. 119, a stupid error of the Doctor’s, attri- 
buting to me the name of “Jetonia.” I have before often 
pointed out that, in the matter of ornithology, Kelaart was a 
mere copyist. He dreaded the sight of a gun with a peculiar 
nervous horror, attributable, I suppose, to the terrible afflic- 
tion to which he was subject. I supplied him with all my 
lists and numerous specimens, not only of birds, but of many 
mammals and reptiles new to him, and it was arranged that 
we should bring out a second part of the ‘ Prodromus’ (then 
in MS. only), which should consist of the Birds, to be written 
by me. Third and fourth parts were also shadowed out, to 
contain the Lepidoptera and terrestrial Mollusca, of which I 
had large collections (see preface to ‘ Prodromus,’ p. vi). 
To my intense astonishment and, I must own, annoyance, 
Kelaart issued his ‘ Prodromus’ without cutting out part ii. 
(p. 91 ef seg.), as agreed upon! He used my lists without 
