MADRAS JOURNAL 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 26 — January 1840. 



I. — Catalogue of the Birds of the Peninsula of India, arranged ac- 

 cording to the modern system of Classification ; with brief Notes on 

 their Habits and Geographical distribution, and description of new 

 doubtful and imperfectly described Species. — By T. C. Jerdon, Assis- 

 tant Surgeon, 2d Madras Light Cavalry. 



{Continued from No. 25 page 269.) 



Sub Family SYLVIAN^.— Small Warblers. 

 Genus ORTHOTOMUS, Hoisf.— Tailor Bird. 



114. — O. Benneltii, Sykes.— O. Sphenurus, Swains. ?— S. ruficapMa, 

 Hutton, J. A. S. [of Bengal, No. 22.-5. longicauda, Vieill. Encycl. 

 Method, p. 456.-5. Guzuratta, Lath. Young bird ?—Phootkee, H.— 

 True Tailor bird. 



The long celebrated, and notorious Tailor Bird, about which so much 

 was said, and, till lately, so little known, appears to have been first de- 

 scribed accurately as such by Lieut. Hutton, in the work referred to, 

 and his specific name should, strictly speaking, be affixed to it, but as 

 liis description has probably not been so numerously circulated as that 

 given by Colonel Sykes, with the correct modern generic name also, 

 it would perhaps, be more injurious than otherwise to attempt to restore 

 its legal name, and, moreover, if priority alone was to be consulted, 

 the name applied by Yieillot has the preference. The S. Sutoria of 



