912 On the Leiotrichane Birds of the Subhemalayas. [[No. 156. 



The Leiothrix signata, McClelland and Horsfield, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1839, p. 162, is identical with Siphya auricularis, (Hodg.) Blyth, /. A. 

 S. XII, 940, and must accordingly now range as S. signata. 



Another Himalayan bird referred to the Leiotrichana by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray, in the 2d edition of his ' List of the genera of Birds' (p. 45), is 

 Sylviparus modestus, Burton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 154;* but I 

 suspect the identity of this with a species sent as a Parus by Mr. 

 Hodgson, and which does not appear to me to differ in any marked 

 degree from Parus, further than in its style of colouring, and in having 

 a shorter tail. The generic diagnosis supplied by Mr. Burton accords 

 with the species in question, except that the expression " rostrum bre- 

 vissimum" conveys the idea of a still shorter bill than occurs in the 

 bird before me, of which I draw up the following description : — 



Sylviparus modestus {?), Burton, loc. cit.; Parus seriophrys, Hodgson, 

 MS. Length about three inches and five-eighths, of which the tail mea- 

 sures an inch and three-eighths ; wing two inches and one-eighth ; 

 bill to gape three- eighths ; tarse nine- sixteenths of an inch. (S. mo- 

 destus is stated to measure four inches, of which the tail occupies an 

 inch and a quarter ; and tarse half an inch.) Colour that of the 

 Phylloscopus group, or olive-green above, paler and dingy below ; the 

 base of the primaries externally edged with yellowish-white : head dis- 

 tinctly crested. Nepal. 



Of the remaining eleven species of Parus alluded to by Mr. Hodgson, 

 four are figured in Gould's ' Century of Himalayan Birds,' viz. 



P. monticolus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 22. 

 ,, xanthogenys, Ibid, p. 23. 

 ,, melanolophus, Ibid. 

 „ erythrocephalus, Ibid, 



* Other species described at the same time were Athene (v. Noctua) Brodiei = Ath. 

 tubiger, (Hodgson,) As. Res. XIX, 175, and J. A. S- XI, 163 ; Phoznicura McGregorii= 

 Niltavafuligiventer,'i{.,Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 650; Sylvia? castaneo-coronata = Tesia 

 fluviventer, H., J. A. S. 1837, p. 101 ; Sylvia Burkii = Culicipeta Burkii, Nobis, J. A. 

 S. xii, 968, v. Muscicapa biliiieata, Lesson, v. Cryptolopha auricapilla, Sw. ( Menag.) ; 

 JEgitalusJlammiceps, probably zStachyris, J. A. S. XIII, 379; and Picumnus innomina- 

 tus =Vivia nipulensis, H., J. A. S. VI, 107, and XII, 1005. To Tesia cyaniventer, H. 

 must be referred Saxicola ? olivea, McClelland and Horsfield, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, 

 p. 161 ; and there is an Abyssinian species of this group figured as Troglodytes mi cru- 

 ras, by Huppell. 



