128 Letters, Announcements, fyc. 
IX.— Letters, Announcements, fyc. 
The following letters, addressed “ To the Editors of f The 
Ibis / 33 have been received :— 
33 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, S.W. 
6th November, 1876. 
Sirs,- —In glancing over the f Catalogue of the Birds in the 
Museum of the East-India Company/ vol. i., my attention 
was called to sp. 370 (p. 246), Pycnonotus sinensis. Among 
the specimens referred to this species I find “B. (P. sinensis ?) 
Siam. From Finlayson's collection/-’ and further on the 
note, “ The specimen from Siam differs in having the head 
entirely black, which in the other specimens is wreathed with 
white, but agrees in other respects with the other.-” It 
will be easy to see that the Siamese bird is the same as my 
Ixos hainanus (Ibis, 1870, p. 253). On the Liuchow penin¬ 
sula of the Chinese main I found the same bird in company 
with the typical P. sinensis, and secured the latter. It is 
interesting to find that the Hainan form occurs in Siam. It 
would be further interesting to ascertain whether the true P. 
sinensis also occurs so far south. 
Yours &., 
Robert Swinhoe. 
Sirs, —In my paper on the Phylloscopi I am afraid I have 
been guilty of somewhat wholesale slaughter. I have endea¬ 
voured to consign Gerygone superciliosa of Wallace, Phyl- 
loscopus broohsi of Hume, Phyllopneuste intermedia of Severt- 
zoff, Phylloscopus abyssinicus of Blanford, Hypolais graminis 
of Severtzoff, and Phylloscopus brehmi of Homeyer to the 
limbo of synonyms. I regret very much to be obliged to add 
another victim to the list; but in this instance at least the 
coup de grace comes with a better grace from me than it would 
from any one else. I understand that the present number of 
f The Ibis 3 will contain an account of the discovery for the 
first time in Asia of the Pipit (. Anthus seebohmi of Dresser) 
which Harvie Brown and I discovered for the first time in 
Europe in 1875. I am afraid I hold in my hand evidence 
