﻿1874.] W. E. Brooks — OrnitTiological Notes and Corrections. 245 



I know for a certainty, from close comparison, that Mr. Swinhoe's ex- 

 amples of M. cinereoalha in the Indian Museum are not identical with the 

 Indian species A. terricolor, and I have indicated the points of difference. 

 This identification of his makes me very mucli doubt that of A. cinereoalha 

 with A. latirostris. Apparently he has not noted the difference between 

 A. terricolor and A. cinereoalha. 



I fail to see any grounds whatever for Mr. Hume's identification in 

 the fact that both he and Lord Walden have A. terricolor from the 

 locality whence Eaffles obtained his species ; and the question, What bird 

 is Alseonax latirostris ? must be regarded as at present an unsettled one. 

 Erytheostebna paeya. 

 J. A. S. B., 1872, p. 76. 



The bird I observed in Cashmere should be Erytlirosterna liypery- 

 tlira, Cabanis, distinguished from JH. parva by having a band of velvet- 

 black down each side of the neck and edging the red of the throat and 

 breast. This full breeding-plumage is assumed after the birds have left the 

 plains. In the cold weather when they re-appear, they have lost the black 

 band ; but the old males retain the red breast. In this plumage it has been 

 mistaken for E. parva, which for the present should be expunged from the 

 Indian list. 



Eettheosteris-a albicilla, Pallas. 

 Erroneously termed ^. leucura by Blyth and Jerdon, this species having 

 a western limit at about Buxar or Ghazeepore and being replaced in the 

 North-West by the aforenamed species. The black wings and tail of -EJ. 

 alhicilla and its colder and greyer plumage readily distinguish it from the 

 other when in immature or female plumage ; it is not nearly so often pro- 

 cured with a red throat, and even then the red does not extend down the 

 breast as in the other species, but is confined to the throat. 



ACEOCEPHALUS STENTOEETJS, H. and E. 



Acrocephalus brimnescens, Jerdon, Ibis, 1874, p. 49. 



Lord Walden* considers the Cashmere species to be distinct. I have 

 seen many both in Cashmere and in the plains of India, and the birds are 

 perfectly identical. The very peculiar and loud voice is alone sufficient to 

 identify the bird by, whether in the plains or in Cashmere. It varies some- 

 what in size and in tone of colour ; the latter depending upon the season of 

 the year. Our plains' birds are only with us during the cold weather, 

 leaving in the spring. Cashmere is the nearest breeding-place, but the 

 great majority of the birds probably go farther north. I should also remark 

 that vi\ this species length of bill, wing, and tail is variable. 

 * Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 64. 



