BRACHYPTERYX MONTANA. 
Brachypteryx nigricante-caerulea nitore cano, subtus pallidior, abdomine albido, stfjpra 
oculos macula alba, dorso alis supra Cauda basi hypochondriis tibiisque (man) badiis. 
Keiek, of the Javanese. 
Brachypteryx montana, Horsf. Si/st. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 
Vol. XIIL p. 158. 
Mountaineer Warbler, Gen. Hist, of Birds by John Latham, M. D. Second Edition, 
1823, Vol V1L p. 124, N. 138. 
IT was remarked, in discussing the natural situation and affinities of the Iora 
scapularis, in the last Number of this Work, that in comparing this bird with 
Dr. Latham's Sylvia?, the second Section, established by M. Tcmminck in that 
extensive genus, had more particularly been kept in view. The Brachypteryx 
montana has again led me to this numerous assemblage of birds ; and 1 have, with 
equal solicitude, extended my comparisons to all the sections. I shall therefore 
premise, to the description of our bird, a concise view of the Sylvise. Several of 
the more ancient Ornithologists have exceeded the modems, if not in the correct- 
ness, at least in the number of their subdivisions. Of these M. Brisson deserves 
tiie first notice. His XLth genus, Ficedula, comprises almost all the European, 
and many of the foreign birds which are arranged in the genus Sylvia of Latham, 
in the following subdivisions : Curruca, Luscinia, Ruticrlla, Phamicurus, Cyanecula, 
Ruhecula, Begulus> Rubeira, VMiflora, Motacilla, Asilus, Sylvia, and Ficedula. In the 
last Section, comprising several foreign birds, the Iora scapularis (of Number VI. of 
these Researches) is enumerated with the name of Ficedula bengalensis, and a figure 
in Edwards is referred to. The latter, although it affords a good representation of 
the colours of our bird, does not exhibit the character of the bill, which constitutes 
its remarkable peculiarity, with sufficient distinctness. As this was not indi- 
cated in the description of the Iora scapularis, I here subjoin a note, explaining 
the omission of the synonyms of several authors * The different denominations 
by which it is designated by these, shew clearly that it possesses some peculiarity 
* Iora scapularis.— Ficedula bengaknsis, Briss. Ornitb. III. p. 464, N. 47. Motacilla Tiphia, Linn. Syst. 
Ed. XII. 1, p. 331, N. 13. Green Indian Fly-catcher, Edw. Birds, I. t. 79. This? bird has many characters m 
common with the Motacilla singalensia and M. zeyloniea, which are introduced by Gmelin in the Xlllth Edition of 
the Systems Nature, from the 15th and S2d Plates of Brown's Illustrations of Zoology. In the most extensive 
catalogue of birds that has yet appeared in this country, the Motacilla Tiphia, Linn., and the ML zeyloniea, GmeL, 
(the Ceylon Black Cap of Brown), are considered as the some bird ythe specific character of Dr. Latham, therefore, 
excluding the Iora scapularis, my attention was not directed to the Synonyms. 
