480 A Monograph of Indian Philloscopi. [No. 5. 



been obtained in Dalmatia and in Britain ; while three of the Euro- 

 pean species have been stated to occur in India, but at a time when 

 the various Indian Pouillots were undescribed and the multiplicity 

 of distinct species of them was unsuspected. As neither of them, 

 however, would appear to have been met with in the country since 

 the numerous Indian species have been recognised, we are led to 

 infer that certain other species were mistaken for them ; and it is 

 highly probable that the Sylvia sibilatrix of Dr. Eoyle's list* refers 

 to our Ph. nitidus, and Mr. Gould's S. trochilus of W. Indiaf to 

 our Pn. virtdanus ; and perhaps M. Temminck's S. trochilus of 

 Japan may likewise prove to refer to some nearly affined species, 

 which he failed to distinguish from the trochilus of Europe. % 



The Indian species have been described under various generic 

 names ; and even now it would not appear that systematists are 

 agreed whether to range the accepted typical form, that of Mota- 

 cilla trochilus, L., under Phyllopneuste of Meyer (1822), which 

 included also the distinct form of Mot. hij)polais, L., regarded 



Ph. javanicus ; Sylvia javanica, Horsfield : seemingly affined to our Ph. 



MAGNIROSTRIS. And 



Ph. montanus ; Sylvia montana, Horsfield : apparently affined to our Ph. 

 tristis. Of Ph. montanus, (Horsf.), the late lamented Hugh E. Strickland 

 informed us, that " the wing is 2 in.' long, gradated, with the fifth quill longest." 



Mr. Strickland adds, from Java, — 

 ' Ph. trivirgatus ; Sylvia trivirgata, Temminck : a species referable to Mr. 

 Hodgson's Group Abrcrnis ; and it is probable that others of this minor group, 

 from the Archipelago, remain to be described. 



* III. Him. But. Introd. p. lxxvii. In this list are enumerated " Sylvia sibila- 

 trix, S. rufa (plains), S. trochilus, and several species undetermined." It is not 

 probable that either of the names specified is correctly applied ; nor certain others 

 in the same list, as especially Gallus sonneratii ! 



t Proc. Zool. Soc. 1805, p. 90. 



X Some Japanese birds which we saw with Mr. Gould, sent by M. Temminck, 

 and identified by him with European species, certainly presented differences more 

 or less marked. We especially remember the Japanese Robin, Jay, and Bullfinch. 

 Tlie last is probably Pyrrhula griseiventris, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. de la Soc. 

 Cuv. 1841, p. 241. — Since this note was penned, we have seen Mr. Gould's figure 

 of the Japanese Bullfinch, in his ' Birds of Asia,' where it is designated P. 

 orikntalis, Temminck and Schlegel. The Jay, too, is cited by the Prince of 

 Canino as Garrulus japonicus. 



