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Budytes viridis (Motacilla viridis, Scopoli, founded on the bad figure 

 in Brown's III. Orn. pi. 33, f. 2 ; M. bistrigata, Raffles ; B. melanoce- 

 phala et B. beema, Sykes ; B. neglecta, melanocephala, et Jlava, apud 

 Jerdon, Catal. ; M. melanocephala, Lichtenstein ; B. jlava vel neglecta 

 et B. Bayi vel Jlaveola of India and the Malay countries, auctorum). 

 Two specimens, from Abyssinia. 



*Crateropus leucopygius, Riippell. Abyssinia. 

 Erythropygia galactotes, (Tern.) Ditto. 



*Lanius collaris, L. Ditto. 

 Enneoctonus rufus, (Brisson). Ditto. 



*Laniarius erythropterus, (Shaw). Ditto. 



*Drioscopus cubla, (Latham). Ditto. 



*Platysteira senegalensis, (L.) M. and F. Ditto. 

 Merula olivacea, (L.) Ditto. 



*Thamnol,ea semirufa (Thamnobia ? semirufa, Eiippell.) — Ditto. 

 Altogether distinct from Thamnobia, which we conceive to be nearly 

 affined to Troglodytes. 



*Cercotrichas erythropterus, (L.) Ditto. This is a true Shdma ; 

 and the generic name Cercotrichas, Boie, holds precedence of Kitta- 

 cincla, Gould. Our museum now possesses three species, — C. erythrop- 

 terus of Nubia, Abyssinia and Kordofan,— C. macrourus of India and 

 the Malay countries, — and C. luzoniensis (Cojpsychus luzoniensis, Kittlitz), 



jj)f the Philippines .* 



— rather than lusitania — may be identical with our Mirafra phoenicuroides, pas- 

 sim : but we have seen no description of Ann. pallidus.) 



There still remain 6 or 7 species of true Mirafra, — viz. 4 in India, M. assa- 

 mica, M. affinis, M. erythroptera, and M. cantillans, — a fifth in Java, 

 M. javanica, — a sixth in N. S. Wales, M. Horsfieldi, Gould (which is affined 

 to the Indian M. cantillans), and Mr. Gould suspects another in N. Australia, 

 larger and more nearly affined to M. javanica. M. assamica is erroneously 

 identified with the last-mentioned species by Mr. G. R. Gray. 



N. B.—M. fiavicollis, McClelland (P. Z. S. 1839, p. 163), is merely the female 

 of Emberiza aureola ! 



* There can be no doubt that C. macrourus (which is often termed the Indian 

 Nightingale) is the species familiarly referred to as u the Nightingale" by Dr. 

 J. D. Hooker, in his ' Himalayan Journal' (I, 332, II, 146) : the season which lie 

 states them to be in song (October), quite sufficing to shew that the real Nightingale 

 cannot be intended. The true British Nightingale abounds in Persia, where it is 

 termed BulbuUi-hazdr-ddstdn, or the " bird with a hundred tongues ;" and many 

 caged Nightingales are brought from that country to Afghanistan in the first 

 instance, and thence to India ; a few finding their way even to Calcutta, where 

 they command a high price as song-birds, and are known as the Bulbul bosta. To 

 the proper Fauna Indica, the veritable genus Luscinia is unknown. 



