Identifier: strayfeathersjou31875hume (find matches)
Title: Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Calcutta : s.n.
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rent, so neither should these local races be considered distinctspecies so long as they remain connected with each other by aperfect chain of intermediate forms. Naturalists generally may not be prepared as yet to acceptthe distinction thus drawn between a species and a local race,but it is, I believe, what we shall all come to sooner or later ; itis, I humbly conceive, the only way of dealing with the questionthat is at once logical and capable of universal practical appli-cation. A. O. H. Botes. & The accompanying—map, I fear I ought to call it, of Arboro-phila Mandellii, though terribly out of drawing according to mynotion, sufficiently correctly represents the distribution andcolors of the markings, and will enable every one, I hope, torecognize the bird (when met with) at a glance. I say whenmet with, advisedly ; Captain Cuttles standing recommendationto make a note of, when found, would be excessively appropriatein the present case. We know perfectly where the bird occurs,
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NOTES. 263 viz., in the Western Bhotan Doars; but up to this present mo-ment, Mr. Mandellis specimen, Avhich is the one figured (ormade a figure of) in our plate, is, I believe, unique. At page 496, Vol. II., I noticed that I had sent home a spe-cimen of a Locustella that occurs in Sumatra and Tenasserim,which I considered to be the true lanceolata of Temminck, foridentification, in consequence of Lord Waldens having identi-fied another species, my L. subsignata from the Andamans, asTemmincks bird. The specimen I sent home was from Tenas-serim. Mr. Sharpe writes:— As far as I can make out, your birdis the true lanceolata of Temminck, and Mr. Dresser, who haslately been working up this genus, concurs in this view. It is remarkable that we have not only obtained Brachjurusmegarhjnchus, Schleg, during the summer, as high up in Te-nasserim as Amherst (S. F., Vol. II., p. 475), but numerousspecimens were this year obtained in the Delta of the Irrawady.This species appears to be really as

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