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between first and second quills, and the second is equal to from fifth or 

 sixth to eighth or ninth, according to the species. The tail, too, o^ Iloreites 

 pallidipes is much rounded and non-'pliylUscojyine. A further difference 

 between Fhi/lloscopus and Iloreites lies in the fact that the former has twelve 

 tail-feathers and the latter tert. I cannot see any generic distinction between 

 Rorornis and Horeites ; Neornis also appears to be the same with a better 

 developed tail. 



PlITLLOSCOPUS MAGNIEOSTRTS, Blytll. 



Mr. Hume* tells us that this bird is identical with P. horeaJis, Blasius 

 {P. sylvicuUrix, Swhihoe). I examined the Chinese examples of the latter, 

 in the Indian Museum, and found the following differences: 



1. P. horealis has a minute first primarj^, as in P. sibilafrLv, Bechst , 

 while P. magiiirostris has a much larger one, as in Ilippolais Rama, Sykes. 



2. The vising of P. horealis is of a different shape from that of mafj- 

 nirostris, being more pointed, with the 2nd quill intermediate between the 

 5th and 6th ; while P. magiiirostris has a wing nmch more rounded in form> 

 the 2nd quill being equal to about the 9th. 



Such diff'erences as these are fatal to identity. 



CULICIPETA CANTATOR, Tickcll. 



I examined the specimen referred to by Mr. Blanfordf and found it to 

 be Peguloides viridijpennis, Blyth, and to agree perfectly with the types in 

 the Indian Museum. G. eantator is a very different bird, and is correctly 

 described by Jerdon. 



Eeguloit^es vi-ridipei^nis, Blyth. 

 May be described as a small and brightly coloured Heg. trocliiloides^ 

 Sundevall. Small examples o{ Reg. trochiloides are very difficult to separate 

 from Reg. viridipennis. 



ReGULOIDES MACULTPENIVIS, Blyth. 



Mr. HumeJ identifies this species with Reg. cliloronotus^ Hodgs. ; against 

 which I do protest. I also have seen Hodgson's drawing referred to by Mr. 

 Hume and could not come to such a conclasion. Hodgson's types of clilo- 

 ronotus have been identified by Blyth and others with Reg.pi^oregidus, Pallas. 

 The drawing referred to is one intended to represent the nest, which by the 

 bye is that of an ./^thopgga, and we have no evidence that Hodgson dis- 

 tinguished between his Ahrornis cliloronotus and Reg. macuUpennis, or 

 that he knew the latter species at all. Such an identification from this 

 slightly coloured drawing cannot be admitted, Hodgson sometimes over- 



* Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 494. 

 t Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, p. 163. 

 i Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 494. 

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