90 Mr. J. H. Gurney Notes on 
without specifying whether the bird he described was from - 
Northern^ Central, or Southern India. If, therefore, the ; 
northern race be considered specifically distinct from that 
inhabiting Central and Southern India, I submit that the ' 
specific name of cheela should be disused, and that oi undu- 
latus substituted, which was founded by Vigors on a specimen 
from the Himalayas, figured in Gould^s Century ^ of birds 
from that region. 
In like manner I think it probable that the specific name 
of melanotisj applied by Mr. Sharpe to the South-Indian 
bird, should give way to the older synonym of albiduSj founded 
on a specimen from Pondicherry, the priority of which has 
been already pointed out by Lord Tweeddale in ^ The Ibis ^ 
for 1873, p. 298. 
The most northern locality from which Spilornis undu- 
latus has hitherto been obtained is the island of Formosa, i 
where it was first observed by my late valued friend Mr. j 
Swinhoe, whose recent decease forms no small gap in the ^ 
circle of British ornithologists, and to whose kindness I have j 
for many years past been frequently indebted in matters con- j 
nected with the ornithology of China and of the East. | 
The same species'^ was obtained by.Mr, Swinhoe at Amoy; 
and it is said by MM. David and Oustalet, in their recent valu- | 
able work on the birds of China, that it occurs dans la partie * 
meridionale de la Chine —though in the island of Hainan 
Mr. Swinhoe met with a smaller race, to which he assigned 
the specific name rutherfordij and to which I shall have oc¬ 
casion subsequently to refer. 
Mr. Swinhoe at p. 304 of ^The Ibis^ for 1866, and at 
p. 86 of that for 1870, gives the measurements of five For¬ 
mosan specimens, in the smallest of which the wing was 18 
inches, the tarsus 4, and the middle toe s.u. 2‘25, whilst in 
the largest the corresponding dimensions were respectively 
19*3, 4*4, and 1*4, the latter being doubtless a misprint for 
^ Mr. Swinhoe originally proposed the specific name of hoya for the 
Spilornis of Formosa, but subsequently acquiesced in its identity with 
that found at Amoy and in Northern India.— Vide Ibis, 1866, p. 304, and 
1870, p. 86. 
