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also Sturnus unicolor (for which I believe old spotless specimens of 
8. vulgaris have been mistaken); Rhodophila melanoleuca, Genus 
quite identical with Oreicola, Bonap., as founded on two Timor 
species, melanoleuca and luctuosa ; and therefore I now call the Indian 
one O. Jerdoni, and do not agree that Pratincola ferrea should range 
with it. (Vide Jerdon’s Appendix). The Horornis and Horeites 
series puzzled us much. Horornis fulviventer = Phylloscopus fusca- 
tus, nobis |—H. fuliginiventro, also a Phylloscopus, akin to last—H, 
flaviventris a true Dumeticola ; and H. fortipes, I suspect, another 
Dumeticola, (to judge from my description of Hodgson’s specimen in 
J. A. S. XIV, 585, for I cannot find a specimen in the museums 
here.) This disposes of the four species admitted by Jerdon; but 
both in the British and India museums, I find numerous specimens 
marked Horornis assimilis, Hodg., and these are identical with the 
bird I formerly described as Drymoica brevicaudata, Afterwards I 
thought that this was the adult of Neornis flavolivocea, Hodg., of 
which I had only seen the young ; and this view is accepted by Jerdon. 
It turns out that the two are allied species, and Horsfield’s Sylvia 
montana constitutes a third; so I bring these three together under 
Neornis, and sink Horornis altogether. As for Horeites, I know but 
of two species, the large H. major, and the small H. brunnetfrons, 
(v. schistilatus), of which pollicaris is the young! Jerdon sends me a 
new Dumeticola ; making 3 (if not 4) of this form, which I think 
might be very well merged under Locustella. Jerdon tells me that 
my Accipiter nisoides is common in the interior of the Himalaya; I 
can find no specimens, and two that he has sent me (as I presume for 
this) are decidedly A. Virgatus, which he should know well. His new 
swallow, Hirwndo Tytleri (mn Appendix), I cannot distinguish from 
HI. cahirica of Palestine and Egypt; but Adam’s species (referred to 
by Jerdon and H. fluvicola) is distinct, and Gould has named it 
empusa. Two species of Woodpecker are confounded under Chryso- 
colaptes sultaneus, viz. true sullaneus, H. (strenwus, Gould), which is 
considerably larger, rare, and known only from Nipaél; and C. Deles- 
serti, Malherbe, from all India, Indo-China, and Malayan Peninsula. 
Zoothera imbricata, Layard—Oreocincla Nilgiriensis, nobis. Of Cuc- 
koos, our Himalayanus is the canoroides, Muller, and optatus, 
Gould; and this species is accepted as striatus, Drapeiz, by Schlegel. 
