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the plumage was otherwise perfect. Hodgson may have drawn 
from this variety. 
Mr. Dresser appears to have followed My. Gould in a mis- 
application of the term M. citreoloides. 
ANTHUS PRATENSIS (anted, p. 179). 
Here Dr. Severtzoff gives particulars of varieties. Pipits, 
though differing but little in form and plumage, have very 
different voices and songs; but on these points Dr. Severtzoff 
does not inform us. When Pipits are thoroughly understood, 
in life as well as in the skin, “ intermediate forms ” disappear. 
I would not, however, say the same of the Skylarks, in which 
genus it is very difficult to determine which are good species 
and which are not. 
PRATINCOLA RUBICOLA (anted, p. 215). 
The Asiatic form of the Stonechat is not P. rubicola. _ Mr. 
Swinhoe’s distinction is infallible, and the plain unstriated 
upper tail-coverts of the Asiatic bird always serve to di- 
stinguish it. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS (anted, p. 216). 
Ihave examined the doubtful species here mentioned. The 
wing is rather different from usual, and the voice may also 
have been abnormal; but it so strongly resembles P. trochilus 
that I would not separate it unless others of the same kind 
were examined. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS TRISTIS (anted, p. 217). 
I have seen skins from Ladak bearing a date which showed 
the bird was at its breeding-quarters ; and I drew the same 
conclusion that I did when I saw July examples of Reguloides 
superciliosus amongst Dr. Jerdon’s birds. The locality of a 
July Phylloscopus skin gives the breeding-place. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS NEGLECTUS (anted, p. 218). 
This bird cannot yet be added to the European list. Mr. 
Seebohm’s bird is an undercoloured example of P. tristis ; 
and I showed him the specimen referred to in ‘The Ibis,’ 
1869, p. 286. Anthus rosaceus is also sometimes deficient in 
coloration as regards the yellow axillaries. 

