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im Suden von Ost-Sibirien, 1855-59/ Band ii. p. 260, Taf. 
ix., as Sylvia ( Phyllopneuste ) schwarzi, is the same as 
that named by Prof. Milne-Edwards Abrornis armandi, 
Nouv. Arch, dn Mns. iii. Bull. p. 32. In my “ Revised 
Catalogue of the Birds of China,” P. Z. S. 1871, no. 132 
(p. 355), I proposed a new genus for this species, but entered 
it by mistake as A. davidii. It should now stand as Oreo - 
pheuste schwarzi (Radde). I have never met with the bird in 
China, but have a specimen collected by Pere David at Pekin, 
one of the “ doubles ” received in exchange from the mu¬ 
seum at the Jardin des Plantes. 
It may be as well also to note that my name Calamodyta 
histrigiceps, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 353, must give way to von 
SchrenclPs Salicaria (Calamodyta) maacki, c Reisen und For- 
schungen in Amurland/ Band i. p. 370, Taf. xii. figs. 4-6, 
which relates to the same species and has priority. The figure 
on the plate gives a good idea of the bird, but, unfortunately, 
leaves out its chief characteristic, the black line over the eye¬ 
brow. Y. Schrenk founded the species on a single specimen 
procured by Herr Maack (the astronomer) south of the Amoor 
river. Pere David has procured it at Peking ; and I have two 
specimens from Amoy. It has lately also been found by 
Blakiston at Hakodadi, North Japan. 
Yours truly, 
Robert Swinhoe. 
Dinapore, India, 
March 10, 1874. 
Sir, —I was glad to see, in ‘The Ibis^ for January 1874, 
that the little bird I called Melizophilus striatus had been 
identified as Drymceca inquiet a, Rupp. 
I was not satisfied with my generic determination of the 
bird, on account of the very different nest and eggs. My ex¬ 
amples of Melizophilus provincialis were very bad ones, with 
some of the tail-feathers wanting. The strongly striated 
plumage, however, is against the bird being a Melizophilus ; 
and this I should have taken more account of. 
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