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identifications, to regard them as belonging to a distinct 
species. The structure and dimensions of all are reconcilable 
with the suggestion that they belong to one species. Wing 
3’25 inches; tail 3. 
The generic title Hylocharis, as founded on this bird, or at 
least on the Javan form, has been by Bonaparte (l. c.) attri¬ 
buted to Boie, with the date 1827. So also has the specific 
title philomela. I have failed to find any proof in sup¬ 
port of this. Hylocharis appears to have been first used by 
Boie, but for a group of the Trochilidse (Isis, 1831, p. 546). 
S. Muller (l. c .) seems to be the first who used the generic 
title Hylocharis for this Shrike; and as it had been previously 
employed by Boie, Dr. Cabanis (/. c.) altered it to Hyloterpe. 
Mr. G. R. Gray (/. c.) retains the title both among the Shrikes 
and the Humming-birds, and credits Dr. Cabanis with the 
authorship of Hylocharis as well as Hyloterpe , an evident 
misreading of the passage in the f Archiv/ 
85. Zosterops palpebrosa (Temm.), PI. Col. 293. fig. 3, 
“ Bengale” (1824). 
“ S. Andaman : March 3, 29, $, iris bright red-brown, bill 
above dark horn-colour, below whitish, legs greenish grey; 
April 27, 6 j iris light reddish brown, bill slaty brown, legs 
slaty green; May 5, <S ” 
The male obtained in May closely resembles Maunbhoom 
examples; but the upper plumage has not quite so yellow a 
tinge, and the frontal feathers are not perhaps as decidedly 
bright yellow. The dimensions are alike, save those of the 
bill, which considerably exceed in length that of the conti¬ 
nental species. The other examples are darker above, closely 
resembling the Neilgherry race, but as dark as in Z. lateralis. 
In them the bill also exceeds in length that of the Maun¬ 
bhoom and other Indian examples. 
86. Emberiza pusilla, Pallas, Beise Russ. Reichs, iii. 
p. 697. no. 20, “Dauria” (1776). 
Emberiza sordida, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1844, p. 958, 
“ Nipaul,” $. 
Ocyris oinops , Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 35, <$ . 
