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APPENDIX I. 
Page 457. — Geocichla citrinci. It is now satisfactorily proved that this species is migratory to Ceylon, as I suggested 
that it must be (p. 458). In October last (1879) an example was captured in the lower story of the Surveyor-General’s 
office in Colombo, Mr. MacVicar being present at the time. Like the Ceylon Bail, which is found in houses about 
Colombo, it had just landed and taken refuge in the large building hi question. It is evident that the bird shot by the 
late Mr. E. Gordon at Jaffna was likewise a new arrival in the island. 
In my note, p. 158, on Geocichla rubecula from Java, I have erred in stating that it has no wing-spot. It is G. albo- 
gularis, Blyth, common in the Andamans, which is devoid of the bar on the wing-coverts. 
Page 477. — Pubigula melanictera. The tail of the figure of this species has been coloured too hard a green. 
Page 482. — Pycnonotus hcemorrhous. I hope that Mr. Hume will see his way to restoring this bird to its old- 
established genus Pycnonotus, for which he has substituted a new one ( Molpastes ), under which this bird and its allies 
are placed in the “ List of the Birds of India.” 
Page 507. — Alcippe niyrifrons. Eggs recently received from Mr. Parker entirely resemble those in my own col- 
lection taken in the north. There is a little variation in the size, one of the specimens measuring 0-77 by 055 inch. On 
the whole the eggs are very large for the bird. 
Page 509. — Pellomeum fuscwapillum. The nest of this species was found by Mr. Parker in the N.W. Province, 
and one of the eggs kindly given me by him is figured (No. 17) on the Plate. It is a moderate oval in shape, slightly 
compressed from the middle to the small end ; the markings are pale red-brown, arranged in the form of a confluent cap 
at the large end, from which small specks and larger blots diminish towards the small end. The cap is overlaid with 
brown blotches in the form of a zone near the end. Dimensions 0-78 by 0 - 55 inch. 
Page 520.. — Prinia socialis. Through the kindness of Dr. Edie, of the Madras Museum, I now possess two specimens 
oi Prinia socialis from Collegal, S, India, which, on comparison with my Ceylon skins, prove to be slightly different, though 
not quite so much so as Sykes’s type, referred to in my article. They are two males, measuring — wing L9-2-0 inches, 
tail 2-2-2-4, tarsus 08, middle toe 052, bill to gape O62-0-65. 
The wing-coverts and secondaries are edged, as in Deccan birds, with brownish rufous, the upper tail-coverts are 
tinged with the same, and the tails are paler brown, with the subterminal bar smaller than in the Ceylonese form. The 
difference in the wing-colouring is very conspicuous, almost as much so as the much greater length of tail. These 
specimens form a link between the Deccan birds and the Ceylonese, but resemble the former more than the latter ; our 
bird should therefore stand, in my opinion, as Peinia bbevicatjda (vicle p. 521), a new subspecies apparently peculiar to 
Ceylon, but which, I regret to say, it is now too late to figure. 
Page 529. — Drymeeca insularis. Dr. Edie, of the Madras Museum, has kindly sent me three specimens of the small 
Wren-Warbler (O. inornatus ?) from South India. There is but little difference between them and our Ceylonese birds 
which I have given the above title to, and I do not think it will eventually stand, although, so far as I can judge from 
a limited number of Indian specimens, these South-Indian birds are different from Sykes’s type noticed in my article. 
Then, again, do they lay spotted eggs, or eggs marked with hair-like streaks ? 
Page 532. — Sclicenicola platywra. The article on this species should, perhaps, not be placed as a footnote in this 
work, as there is no question about the bird (so says Mr. Sharpe) having been procured in Ceylon. My reason for so 
treating the notice of this species was that the bird was not satisfactorily determined. As I said before, I do not see how 
we are ever to ascertain what Sclicenicola platyura of Jerdon really was. 
Page 541. — Acrocephalus stentorius. Mr. Parker found this Warbler numerous in January last, at Ataragalla tank, 
which is not far from Balalli, on the Anaradhapura road to Wariyapola. 
Page 555. — Phylloscopus viridanus. Layard (Ibis, 1880, p. 285) is in error about the fourth species of Phylloscopus, 
which, he says, I have overlooked. Phyllopneuste montanus (Ho'rsfield), apud Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. no. 1105, is 
Phylloscopus proregulus (Pall.), apud Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xxiii. p. 488, the species now known as P. superciliosus (Gmel.), 
which has never been recorded from Ceylon. The skins which w T ere identified by Blyth as P. montanus from Ceylon 
were doubtless the examples of Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth (a common bird and abounding in bushes in the Jaffna 
peninsula), which appears in Blyth's Catalogue as A. montanus (Sykes), a specimen of which, collected by Mr. Layard in 
Ceylon, is there recorded. Blyth altered the name A. montanus to A. dumetorum , because he discovered that the Sylvia 
montana of Sykes was not the same species as the Sylvia montana of Ilorsfield, and that since the latter name had the 
priority of date, the former name must be laid aside as a preoccupied synonym, and a new name must be provided. 
