110 Notiees and Descriptions of various [May, 



recently, he has favoured me with his montana of southern India, 

 winch is identical with the Bengal species. I have pointed out the 

 distinctions, loc. cit. ; and may acid that the songs of the two species 

 are altogether different, that of C. montana being a low soft warble.* 

 C. montana is probably the Sylvia arundinacea, var. A, of Latham. 



Phyllojjneuste, vide XIV, 593. Mr. Jerdon has sent me two very 

 closely allied races which he thinks have been confounded under Ph, 

 rama. The one he regards as true rama, which is of a more rufescent 

 brown colour ; the other has a more greyish shade. I can hardly, 

 however, bring myself to admit their distinctness. The latter variety 

 occurs abundantly in Lower Bengal, upon the sandy soil above the tide- 

 way of the Hoogly, haunting baubul topes and scattered trees near 

 villages, as well as hedges and low bush-jungle ; and I have recent- 

 ly observed it in the jungles north and west of Midnapore. The 

 following are my notes, taken from several recent specimens. Length 

 five inches, by seven and a half in alar expanse ; wing two inches and 

 three-eighths, to two and a half; tail two inches to two and one-eighth, 

 its outermost feather an eighth of an inch shorter : bill to gape five- 

 eighths of an inch ; tarse three-quarters. Irides dark : bill dusky 

 above, pale carneous below : iuside of mouth yellow : legs light brown, 

 tinged with plumbeous on the joints. Length of first primary, five- 

 eighths of an inch and upwards. Colour above greyish-brown, below 

 pale, passing to white at the vent and on the lower tail-coverts ; lores, 

 continued as a streak passing the eye, pale. 



Culicijpeta, nobis, XII, 968. I obtained a very beautiful species of 

 this genus a few miles above Calcutta. 



C. cantator, (Tickell,) J. A. S. II, 5/6.f Length four inches and a 

 quarter, by six and three-eighths in alar expanse ; wing two inches 

 and a quarter ; and tail an inch and three-quarters : bill to gape nearly 



* Mr. Jerdon has also sent a British specimen of C.salicaria, which certainly approxi- 

 mates to montana more than two others in the Society's collection do ; these three being 1 

 unquestionably of the same species: all, however, are of a more rufescent and less 

 greenish shade than C. montana; the bill of C. salicaria is narrower; and, as above 

 remarked, the notes of the two species are exceedingly unlike, which, I think, of itself 

 decides the question. Mr. Jerdon suggests that C. agricola may perhaps be the C. paltis- 

 tris of Europe. 



t C. schiuiceps of Mr. Gray's catalogue of Mr. Hodgson's specimens presented to the 

 British Museum, pp. 67, 153. 



