﻿246 W. E. Brooks — Ornitliological Notes and Corrections. [No. 4, 



ACEOCEPHALUS DUMETORUM, Bljtll. 



I saw a few of tliis species near Mussoorie on June 1st frequenting 

 dense rose-thickets at about 7000 feet elevation. Whether they would have 

 remained there to breed or gone further north, is a question to be solved. 

 Capt. Hutton is said to have taken the eggs near Mussoorie. The males 

 were not singing, as they usually do vigorously when the nest is built. 



DUMETICOLA AEFINIS, HodgS. 



Is subject to variation as regards being spotted or not, just as is D, 

 major, Brooks. I obtained one or two unspotted examples of the latter ; 

 they were breeding males, too, and in full song. Mr. Hodgson was 

 aware of the variation, and hence figures I), affiiiis as unspotted, but 

 describes it as spotted. The female of neither species has been recorded ; 

 that sex in both is probably unspotted. I never obtained a female of D. 

 major. 



DUMETICOLA BRUNNEIPECTUS, Blyth. 



Eeferred toby Mr. Blanford in J. A. S. B., 1872, p. 164. I examined 

 this bird, and found it to be D. affinis in the unspotted stage. I would 

 suppress Blyth's D. hrunneipectus altogether as a species, considering it but 

 D, ajffinis, Hodgs. 



TrIBURA LTJTEOVEIfTRIS, HodgS. 



I examined the specimen referred to by Mr. Blanford* and found it also 

 to be Dumeticola affinis, Hodgs. in the unspotted plumage. Tribura luteo- 

 ventris has a longer head, measured from the back of the skull to the tip of 

 the bill, which latter is also of a different shape. The specimen in the In- 

 dian Museum is so old and faded that the oris-inal colour cannot be recos- 

 nized ; nor can the forms of wing and tail be ascertained. 



Neornis elavoliyacea, Hodgs. 

 I have this species, and it is a greenish olive above. Hodgson's draw- 

 ing, No. 900, does not represent it, as stated by Mr. Hume,t but is appli- 

 cable to Horornis assimilis, Hodgs., as stated by Gray. 



Phylloscopus palt.idipes, Blanford, J. A. S. B., 1872, p. 162. 



Is not a Fhylloscopus, but a true Horeites. I have examined 

 the type : the second quill is equal to about the sixteenth ; third 

 equal to eighth ; the first, second, third, and fourth are graduated, the 

 distance from tip to tip of each feather diminishing till the fourth is 

 reached. This is a very rounded wing, such as is not possessed by any 

 Fhylloscopios ; in the wing of which genus there is always a long space 



* Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 164. f Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 444. 



