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Page 457. — Geoeichla citnna. It is now satisfactorily proved that this species is migratory to Ceylon, as I suggested 

 that it must be (p. 458). In October last (1879) an example was captured in the lower story of the Surveyor-General's 

 office in Colombo, Mr. Mac Vicar being present at the time. Like the Ceylon Rail, which is found in houses about 

 Colombo, it had just landed and taken refuge in the large building in question. It is evident that the bird shot by the 

 late Mr. F. Gordon at Jaffna was likewise a new arrival in the island. 



In m v note, p. 158, on Geoeichla rubecula from Java, I have erred in stating that it has no wing-spot. It is G. albo- 

 gularis, Blyth, common in the Andamans, which is devoid of the bar on the wing-coverts. 



Page 477. — RvMgula melanictera. The tail of the figure of this species has been coloured too hard a green. 



Page 482. — Pycnonotus Jicemon-hous.' I hope that Mr. Hume will see his way to restoring this bird to its old- 

 established genus Pycnonotus, for which he has substituted a new one (Molpastes), under which this bird and its allies 

 are placed in the " List of the Birds of India.'' 



Page 507. — Alcippe nigrifrons. Eggs recently received from Mr. Parker entirely resemble those in my own col- 

 lection taken in the north. There is a little variation in the size, one of the specimens measuring 0-77 by 055 inch. On 

 the whole the eggs are very large for the bird. 



Page 509. — Pellonuum fuscicapillum. The nest of this species was found by Mr. Parker in the N.W. Province, 

 and one of the eggs kindly given me by him is figured (No. 17) on the Plate. It is a moderate oval in shape, slightly 

 compressed from the middle to the small end ; the markings are pale red-brown, arranged in the form of a confluent cap 

 at the large end, from which small specks and larger blots diminish towards the small end. The cap is overlaid with 

 brown blotches in the form of a zone near the end. Dimensions 078 by 055 inch. 



Page 520. — Prinia socialis. Through the kindness of Dr. Edie, of the Madras Museum, I now possess two specimens 

 of Prin in socialis from Collegal, S. India, which, on comparison with my Ceylon skins, prove to be slightly different, though 

 not quite so much so as Sykes's type, referred to in my article. They are two males, measuring — wing 1-9-2-0 inches, 

 tail 2-2-2-4, tarsus 0-8, middle toe 0*52, bill to gape 0-62-0-65. 



The wing-coverts and secondaries are edged, as in Deeean birds, with brownish rufous, the upper tail-coverts are 

 tinged with the same, and the tails are paler brown, with the subterininal bar smaller than in the Ceylonese form. The 

 difference in the wing-colouring is very conspicuous, almost as much so as the much greater length of tail. These 

 specimens form a link between the Deccan birds and the Ceylonese, but resemble the former more than the latter; our 

 bird should therefore stand, in my opinion, as Prinia brevicauda (vide p. 521), a new subspecies apparently peculiar to 

 Ceylon, but which, I regret to say, it is now too late to figure. 



Page 529. — Drymoxa iiisulm-i.-;. Dr. Edie, of the Madras Museum, has kindly sent me three specimens of the small 

 Wren-Warbler (1). inornatus ?) from South India. There is but little difference between them and our Ceylonese birds 

 which I have given the above title to, and I do not think it will eventually stand, although, so far as I can judge from 

 a limited number of Indian specimens, these South-Indian birds are different from Sykes's type noticed in my article. 

 Then, again, do they lay spotted eggs, or eggs marked with hair-like streaks'? 



Page 532. — Schoenicola platyura. The article on this species should, perhaps, not be placed as a footnote in this 

 work, as there is no question about the bird (so says Mr. Sharpe) having been procured in Ceylon. My reason for so 

 treating the notice of this species was that the bird was not satisfactorily determined. As I said before, I do not see how 

 we are ever to ascertain what Schoenicola platyura of Jerdon really was. 



Page 541. — Acrocephalus stentorius. Mr. Parker found this Warbler numerous in January last, at Ataragalla tank, 

 which is not far from Balalli, on the Anaradhapura road to Wariyapola. 



Page 555. — Phylloscopus viridanus. Layard (Ibis, 1880, p. 285) is in error about the fourth species of Phylloscopus, 

 which, he says, I have overlooked. Phyllopneuste montanus (Horsfield), apud Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. no. 1105, is 

 Phylloscopus proregulus(Psi\l.), apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 488, the species now known as P. superciliosus (Gmel.), 

 which has never been recorded from Ceylon. The skins which were identified by Blyth as P. montanus from Ceylon 

 were doubtless the examples of Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth (a common bird and abounding in bushes in the Jaffna 

 peninsula), which appears in Blyth's Catalogue as A. montanus (Sykes), a specimen of which, collected by Mr. Layard in 

 Ceylon, is there recorded. Blyth altered the name A. montanus to A. dumetorum, because he discovered that the Sylvia 

 montana of Sykes was not the same species as the Sylvia montana of Horsfield, and that since the latter name had the 

 priority of date, the former name must be laid aside as a preoccupied synonym, and a new name must be provided. 



