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Elliot's notes, the species named Gundum by him, which 

 1 had confounded with the E. melanocephala, so abundant in 

 the north of the Deccan, and there called Gundum. I have 

 procured this bird from the Cuddapah district during the 

 cold weather, and Mr. Blyth has obtained it from Central 

 India. Mr. Elliot too found it abundant in Dharwar ; but it 

 appears to be very locally distributed, for I never myself ob- 

 tained, or saw it, that I am aware of, among the thousands of 

 E. melanocephala that yearly visit the corn fields about Jaul- 

 nah. 



No. 180 — E. ortolana Sykes' Cat. — I have not myself 

 obtained this as yet, nor has Mr. Blyth, but he has seen a 

 drawing of Buchanan's of an allied species, which he has 

 named E. Buchanani. 



No. 181 — E. cia. — The doubtfully cited cia of my Cata- 

 logue is referred to Emberiza fucata Pallas, E. lesbia of 

 Temminck ; not of other authors. 



Nos. 182 and 183 — E. cristata, and E. subcristata. — These 

 are but male and female of the same bird, which is now 

 named E. ( Melophus J Lathami Gray. It is also the E. 

 nipalensis of Hodgson, and the E. erythroptera of Jardine and 

 Selby. The bird named by BufTon, Le Moineau de Macao, 

 figured PI. Enl. £24, 1, appears to me to be the same bird, 

 and if so it will bear the prior, but certainly inappropriate, 

 name of mela?iictera Vieillot. 



No. l85~A!auda Chendoola. — The Aggun of South India 

 referred by me from a living specimen to Franklin's chendoola, 

 is, I find on procuring specimens, a species of Mirafra, which 

 I have called cantillans, under which name Mr. Blyth has 

 described it in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. 13, p. 

 960. It appears very locally distributed, but Mr. Blyth has 

 obtained it near Calcutta. 



No. 186— Alauda deva— Sykes.— The Chandool of South- 



