365 
on Dr. Jerdon's ( Birds of India. 3 
236. Dic/EUM coccineum (Scopoli); Gould, B. As. pt. vi. pi. ; 
P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219. 
I observed this species in remarkable abundance in the 
vicinity of Mergui Station. Its nest is described by Messrs. 
Mottley and Dillwyn in their ‘ Contributions to the Natural 
History of Labuan* (p. 18). 
240. PlPRISOMA AGILE. 
This species might very well be referred to Prionochilus , 
bearing the same relationship to the bright-coloured Malayan 
species that Dicreum concolor and D. minimum bear to the 
vividly-coloured species of their genus. Capt. Beavan has lately 
obtained the nest, which he mentions as a very interesting 
structure. Apparently a second Indian—-or rather Cingalese— 
species of Prionochilus exists in the Pardalotus pipra , Lesson 
(Cent. Zool. pi. 26.) Neither Prionochilus nor P achy soma, I 
think with Mr. Wallace, belong to the Dicceum series, but are 
more akin to the Australian form Pardalotus. 
241. Myzanthe ignipectus, Hodgs.; Gould, B. As. pt. vi. 
pi. 
245. Certhia discolor. 
According to Dr. Jerdon, this species u makes the nearest 
approach to C. familiaris of Europe.” I do not concur in this 
statement. C. himalayana is the Eastern representative of C. 
familiaris, while C. nipalensis and C. discolor have conspicuously 
shorter bills and longer tails. An American species which 
comes very near to C. himalayana is C. mexicana, Gloger (Baird, 
B. Am. pi. 83. fig. 2). It is remarkable that C. himalayana 
likewise occurs in Afghanistan, from which direction it may 
have reached and spread over the North-western Himalaya. 
246. Salpornis spilonotus (Franklin); Gray and Mitchell, 
Ill. Gen. Birds, pi. 44. f. 1. 
I have given elsewhere a more detailed description (Ibis, 
1865, p. 48). Mr. G. R. Gray (Br. Mus. Cat. Nipal) places 
Certhia himalayana, Vigors (C. asiatica, Swains.), as synonymous 
with C. spilonota, Franklin, and gives Nipal as the habitat! 
Neither of these species is known to inhabit Nipal; and Mr. 
