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KUTiciLLA ekythrogastka, (Guld., v. R. tricolor, Gould; this fine and 

 very rare Himalayan bird was obtained by a mountain stream near Lan- 

 dour,— there were a pair of them, apparently alike in colour) ; Tarsiger 

 chrysgsus, H. ; Cyornis ffiQUALiCAUDA, nobis, J. A. S. XX, 523, another 

 female (the male being still unknown*) ; phyllopneuste occipitalis, 

 two (previously only known from a single specimen procured in S. India 

 by Mr. Jerdon) ; reguloides chloronotus ; Houbara macqueenii ; 

 lobivanellus leucurus (the only Indian specimen previously recorded 

 having been obtained by myself in the Calcutta bazar) ; porzana akool 

 (Deyra Doon) ; P zeylonicus, Ind. var. (resembling a specimen from 

 Gumsur, and in like way differing from a Cinghalese one, vide J. A. S. 

 XXI, 353 ; also Deyra Doon) ; and some others unworthy of particular 

 note. Three specimens of an Egret in winter dress would seem to differ 

 only from ordinary Herodias garzetta in having black toes. 



T. C. Jerdon, Esq., Mhow. A few bird-skins from the vicinity of that 

 station ; of which the most remarkable is an example of locustella 

 Rayi, nobis, the British Grasshopper Warbler, which would appear to be 

 there not uncommon. We had previously seen a specimen from the N. W. 

 Himalaya.f Also Chostusia gregaria (mistaken in Mr. Jerdon's Cata- 



Mr. Hodgson from Nepal ; but the specimens were in such bad order that I could 

 not satisfactorily distinguish them from A. gulgula (the common Lark of the 

 plains of India and of Bengal). From the latter it may be distinguished, however, 

 by its smaller bill and longer tail. N. B. The supposed M. malabarica, 

 Scopoli (A. deva, Sykes), of my Catalogue of the Birds in the Society's museum, 

 I now believe to be merely A. gulgula in much abraded plumage. 



* Qu. C. pallipes, (Jerdon) ? 



f I believe that I first termed this species L. Rayi, some fifteen years ago, and 

 Mr. Gould adopts this name for it in his * Birds of Europe." Mr. G. R. Gray 

 terms it Locustella avicula, Ray; but the latter word was assuredly never 

 meant for a name or specific designation. M. Degland styles it L. nosvia, from 

 its being the Curruca grisea ncevia of Brisson, and gives L. Rayi, '* Gould," as a 

 synonyme ; but this I think is hardly admissible. A second species is not rare in 

 the vicinity of Calcutta during the cold season, especially about the Salt-water 

 Lake, where it is often taken alive and brought to the provision bazar, along with 

 the various small Rails and Water-Crakes ; but such specimens are generally muti- 

 lated by the dealers, who tear off the quills of one wing and often the tail with it, 

 according to their vile wont. I now suspect that this second true and typical 

 species of Locustella (my L. rubescens, /. A. 8. XIV, 582), is no other than 

 the Turdus certhiola, Pallas (Sylvia c, Tern.), from N. Asia, and so very rare in 

 collections. Dumeticola thoracica, nobis (Salicaria affinis, Hodgson), appears 

 to approximate the European Locustella fluviatilis, (Meyer) ; and tribura 



