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Hodgson obtained bis specimens of Salpornis from Behar. The 
latter genus is not distantly allied to the Australian form 
Climacteris, and also shows some approach to the Mexican 
Campy lor hynchus megalopterus, Lafresnaye, as figured by M. 0. 
DesMurs (Icon. Orn. pi. 54). It is curious to observe how the 
combination of Tree-creeper and Nuthatch, as shown in these 
genera, is reversed in the Dendrodromus leucosternus, Gould 
(figured in f Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle/ Aves , pi. 27). 
251 . SlTTA CINNAMOMEIYENTRIS. 
This species (and not S. himalayensis, as averred by Mr. 
Gould, and after him by Dr. Sclater, Ibis, 1865, p. 309) is “the 
Himalayan form of S. europcea” resembling the latter exactly 
in size and structure, but in colouring (which differs in the 
sexes) S. castaneiventris ( S . castanea, Lesson) : the last is 
smaller and less robust, with a considerably more slender bill 
(much as in the American S. aculeata , Cassin, as distinguished 
from S. carolinensis ; vide Baird’s ‘ Birds of America/ pi. xxxiii.), 
while S. himalayensis is also a smaller bird, with proportionally 
much shorter bill—that is, wider and more depressed at base. 
The Palestine Nuthatch, erroneously referred to S. krueperi 
(Ibis, 1865, pi. vii.) by Mr. Tristram (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 433), 
would seem to correspond with the female of S. cinnamomeiventris 
(cf. Mr. Gould’s figure, B. As. pt. i.). The last-named species 
is confined to the Himalaya (unless spreading westward, as to 
Palestine?), its range not extending “far and wide over the 
districts of India 39 as asserted by Mr. Gould—a statement which 
in this genus will apply only to S. castaneiventris. S. syriaca 
is common in Afghanistan. 
253. Dendrophila frontalis. 
A beautiful second species of this genus exists in the Javan 
D. azurea (Lesson) ; D. flavipes, Swainson; Gray and Mitchell, 
Ill. Gen. Birds, pi. 45. 
255. Upupa ceylonensis, Reichenbach. 
Noted from Java by Dr. Cabanis, but doubtless the common 
Indo-Chinese race (U. longirostris , Jerdon), which again is that 
observed in Siam by the late Sir R. H. Schomburgk (Ibis, 
1864, p. 247), and which was referred to U. nigripennis by Mr. 
