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also Sturnus itnicolor (for which I believe old spotless specimens of 

 S. vulgaris have been mistaken) ; Rlxodopliila melanoleuca, Genus 

 quite identical with Oreicola, Bonap., as founded on two Timor 

 species, melanoleuca and luctuosa ; and therefore I now call the Indian 

 one 0. Jerdon i, and do not agree that Pratincola ferrea should range 

 with it. (Vide Jerdon's Appendix). The Horomis and Horeites 

 series puzzled us much. Horomis fulviventer = Pliylloscopus /mea- 

 tus, nobis !< — H fuliginiventro, also a Pliylloscopus, akin to last. — H 

 fiaviventris a true Dumeticola ; and H. fortipes, I suspect, another 

 Dumeticola, (to judge from my description of Hodgson's specimen in 

 J. At S. XIV, 585, for I cannot find a specimen in the museums 

 here.) This disposes of the four species admitted by Jerdon ; but 

 both in the British and India museums, I find numerous specimens 

 marked Horomis assimilis, Hodg., and these are identical with the 

 bird I formerly described as Drymoica brevicaudata. Afterwards I 

 thought that this was the adult of Neomis flavolivocea, Hodg., of 

 which I had only seen the young ; and this view is accepted by Jerdon. 

 It turns out that the two are allied species, and Horsfield's Sylvia 

 montana constitutes a third ; so I bring these three together under 

 Neomis, and sink Horomis altogether. As for Horeites, I know but 

 of two species, the large H major, and • the small H. brunneifrons, 

 (v. schistilatus) , of which pollicaris is the young ! Jerdon sends me a 

 new Dumeticola ; making 3 (if not 4) of this form, Avhich I think 

 might be very well merged under Locustella. Jerdon tells me that 

 my Accipiter nisoides is common in the interior of the Himalaya ; I 

 can find no specimens, and two that he has sent me (as I presume for 

 this) are decidedly A . Virgatus, which he should know well. His new 

 swallow, Hirundo Tytleri (in Appendix), I cannot distinguish from 

 H. cahirica of Palestine and Egypt ; but Adam's species (referred to 

 by Jerdon and H fluvicola) is distinct, and G-ould has named it 

 empusa. Two species of Woodpecker are confounded under Chryso- 

 colaptes sultaneus, viz. true sidtaneus, H. (strenuus, Grould), which is 

 considerably larger, rare, and known only from Nipal ; and C. DeJes- 

 serti, Malherbe, from all India, Indo-China, and Malayan Peninsula. 

 Zoothera imbricata, Layard — Oreocincla Nilgiriensis, nobis. Of Cuc- 

 koos, our Himalayanus is the canoroides l Muller, and optatus 

 Gould; and this species is accepted as striatus, Drapeiz, by Schlegel. 



