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coloured and sometimes under-coloured. Take his Lo^liophanes dichrous : 

 the drawing is far too red, and it would be impossible to recognize the species 

 intended from it. So also with his Farus (Emodius : it was this very faulty 

 drawing, omitting the crest and the wing spots, that led me to describe 

 Lo])hoiohanes JIumei (J. A. S. B., 1873, p 57), which must henceforward 

 stand as LopJiophanes (Emodius, for Blyth made out tliat the tj^pe of Parus 

 (Emodius was not a Parus but a Loplioplianes . Many of Hodgson's draw- 

 ings are very good, especially those in which he had evidently superintended 

 the work and given minute details, but others, such as that of the supposed 

 Heg. maculipemiis, are insufficient for the determination of such birds as the 

 Phylloscopij which, as a rule, resemble each other so much in size and 

 colour. 



I also examined the specimen referred to by Mr. Blanford in J. A. S. 

 B, 1872, p. 162, and found it to be Beguloides maculipennis, Blyth; as 

 also was Beguloides sp. ? mentioned on the following page of the same 

 Journal. 



BUDTTES FLAVA, Lin. 

 B. CINEREOCAPILLA, Savi. 



B. MELANOCEPHALA, Bonaparte. 



Under the term Budytes viridis, Scop. Lord Walden* makes 

 great confusion. He says, " One example in winter plumage, olive green 

 above, upper part of breast sulphur yellow, rest of under surface pure white ; 

 some of the ventral and under tail coverts dashed with sulphur yellow. 

 Supercilium conspicuous, broad, and pure white. Agrees perfectly with ex- 

 amples from Continental India." 



This bird is, of course, Budytes Jlav a, the characteristic of which is the 

 hroad white supercilium. Again he sa3^s,f " 3Iofacilla Jlavescens, Stephens, 

 Gen. Zool. Aves. X, p. 559, is enumerated in the ' Hand list' by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray, as a distinct species, with the habitats of the Moluccas, Celebes, 

 Timor and Java, assigned. Stephens gave this title to Buffon's Bergero- 

 nette de I'ile de Timor Hist. Nat. V. p. 275. BuiFon's bird belongs to that 

 phase of plumage of B. viridis^ (Gm.) in which the superciliary stripe 

 is yellow, the upper plumage ash coloured, and the under yellow." 

 When the male of i?.j^«y« has newly moulted in the spring, the super- 

 cilium is sometimes strongly tinged with bright yellow, as are the margins 

 to the white wing-coverts and tertials ; this yellow rapidly fades away leav- 

 ing the feather pure white : the yellow tinge on the white wing margins is 

 a regular occurrence, but that on the supercilium is accidental or, I should 



* Trans. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 65. 



t In a memoii' ' On the Birds of Cglebes,' Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., Vol. YIII, 

 part 2, 1872, p. 65. 



