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XLIX.— A few Ornithological Notes and Corrections. 
By W. E. Brooks. 
Phylloscopus yiridanus. 
Dr. Severtzoff says ( antea, p. 81) that Turkestan examples 
of this bird differ much in the form of the hill; and he de¬ 
scribes two varieties as P. intermedia and P. hypolania. It 
is strange that Dr. Severtzoff should find such variation; for 
in India we find the characteristics of this species remark¬ 
ably constant. It is probable that Dr. Severtzoff had other 
species mixed with his P. viridanus. The female of P. magni- 
rostris is difficult to separate from that of P. viridanus. 
Anthus maculatus, Hodgson. 
Dr. Severtzoff says [antea, p. 180), “The form known as 
Anthus agilis, Sykes, was also found in 1874 in the moun¬ 
tains east of Kuldja.” I have examined the type of Anthus 
agilis; and it is not the green Chinese Pipit named A. macu - 
latus by Hodgson, hut is the common Tree-Pipit, Anthus 
trivialis. 
Alauda gulgula, Franklin [antea, p. 181). 
Alauda triborhyncha, Hodgs., judging from its short 
wing, cannot be separated from the common Indian spe¬ 
cies, A. gulgula. Hodgson, in a note, states that his spe¬ 
cies was founded upon an example with a peculiarly worn 
bill. Many ornithologists erroneously suppose that A. tri¬ 
borhyncha is a large Lark, and misapply the term to Alauda 
dulcivox. 
Hypolais rama, Sykes (Ibis, 1874, p. 184). 
In spite of the small total length of Sykes’s bird, the type of 
Sylvia rama is the longer-billed and greyer species. The iden¬ 
tification of H. rama with H. caligata, Mr. Dresser informs me, 
was a mistake. My remarks about the rufous tone of the new 
autumnal plumage apply to H. caligata, and not to Sykes’s 
bird. My conclusions, drawn from Sykes’s measurements, 
were right in the two instances of Milvus govinda and Alauda 
deva; but I was wrong as regards H. rama. Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 
1875, p. 513) identified the larger bird with Sykes’s type. 
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