18-1".] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 139 



1. C. orphea apud Jerdon ; nee orphea vera, as I have been assur- 

 ed : probably Black-headed Warbler of Latham. This Indian species 

 combines the characters of the European C. atricapilla and C. sylviella, 

 but has a much larger and longer bill than either, which tends a little 

 to be incurved. Length of wing three inches and a quarter, of tail two 

 and three-quarters ; bill to gape three-quarters of an inch ; and tarse 

 seven-eighths. Colour brownish-ashy above, whitish beneath, pure 

 white on the throat and middle of belly ; cap, including lores and upper 

 ear- coverts, black in the male, dusky or blackish-grey in the female ; 

 (he nape and rump comparatively pure ashy : tail blackish ; its outermost 

 feather externally white for the basal two-thirds, obliquely separated ; 

 the next four successively less broadly tipped with white : bill dusky, 

 with whitish base to lower mandible ; and feet plumbeous. From south- 

 ern India. If a new species, C. Jerdoni, nobis. 



2. G. affinis, nobis, XIV, note to p. 564 : C. cinerea apud Jerdon, 

 Catal., vide loc. cit. Hitherto only observed in southern India. 



3. C. sylviella, (Gm.) : C. garrula, Brisson, and of Sykes and 

 Jerdon. Since writing the note referred to in the preceding notice, 

 I have not only received C. sylviella from Mr. Jerdon, entirely agreeing 

 with British specimens, but have myself shot a pair, about a hundred 

 miles above Calcutta. I observed many of them frequenting the baubul 

 Mimosa, in little parties ; and, as in England, keeping chiefly to the 

 trees, and not to low bush-covert, as is the habit of C. sylvia (v. 

 cinerea) . 



M. Temminck mentions having received a female of C. atricapilla, 

 the melodious British Blackcap, from Java ; in which case it would 

 probably be also an Indian bird : and I am very greatly mistaken if I 

 did not, upon one occasion, observe C. hortensis, another charming 

 British songster, in this neighbourhood, both seeing the bird, as far as 

 I could make it out among the foliage, and recognising its familiar 

 notes ; though having my gun loaded with heavy shjt, and being upon 

 the look out for more redoubtable game, I did not secure the specimen. 



Calamoherpe, Boie. Three species of this genus are noticed in XIV, 

 594-5, and one of them again in XV, 288. In Madr. Journ. No XXXI, 

 130, Mr. Jerdon, following Mr. Strickland, identifies C. montana with 

 the British C. salicaria. This is a mistake, unless Mr. Jerdon has 

 confounded two species under montana, which is improbable. More 



