122 MUSCICAPIP-E. 



2. Hemichelidon ferrugineus. 



Hemichelidon ferni;iiiiea, IIoiI(/s. P. Z. S. l>!4o, p. .32 (t}T)es exa- 

 mined) ; Grai/, Cat. Mamm. Sfc. Xcpal Coll. Hodqs. p. 91 ; id. Gen. 

 B. i. p. 2(>2 ; Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 119 ; id. Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. 

 p. 173 ; Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 321 : Ilor.if. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 

 Co. i. p. 137; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1801, p. 40; Gray, Huml-l. B. i. 

 p. 324, no. 48G3 ; Hume, Neds 8)- Eqgs Itid. B. p! 207. 



Bntalis rufescens, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xvi'. p. 120 {ex Jerdon, MS.). 



? Alseonax rnfescens, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. .53. 



Hemichelidon rufilata, Swinh. Bns, 18G0, p. 57. 



Alseonax ferruginens, Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 4(i0. 



Butalis ferruginea, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 288, et 1871, p. 379 ; Blt/th, 

 B. Burm. p. 104; David 8f Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 121. 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, shading into chestnut 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; head and nape sooty brown ; 

 least wing-coverts like the back, the remainder of the coverts and 

 the secondaries blackish brown, edged and tipped with chestnut- 

 rufous, paler on the margins of the inner secondaries ; primary- 

 coverts and primaries nearly uniform blackish brown, the first pri- 

 mary broadly edged with rufous ; two (Centre tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, the remainder rufous, dusky brown along the outer web, the 

 inner web more or less dusky near the tip ; round the eye a distinct 

 ring of huffy -white feathers : lores rufous ; feathers in front of and 

 below the eye and the ear-coverts dusky brown, mottled with whitish 

 shaft-lines or spots ; under surface of laody orange-rufous, the throat 

 and sides of the breast shaded with dusky brown ; centre of abdomen 

 white ; throat pale rufous-buff, with dusky margins to most of the 

 feathers ; the bases to the plumes of the lower throat white, forming 

 a concealed white patch ; under wing-coverts deep orange-rufous ; 

 quiUs dark brown below, edged with light rufous along the inner 

 web ; " bill black, with the base of the lower mandible whitish ; 

 feet duU grey, with the soles yellow and the nails grey : iris brown " 

 {David). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-8, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



Ohs. In some specimens the throat is pure white, with a malar 

 streak on each side of dusky black ; the outer tail-feathers appear 

 gradually to lose all the dusky markings on the outer web. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, extending into Southern China. 



a-e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 f,g. Ad. sk. Darjiling. J. Fotlieringham, Esq. [C.]. 



2. MICRffiCA* ^ 



Tjpe. 



Microeca, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 172 M. assimilis. 



Museicapa (pt.). Gray. 



* The following species have been included in Mr. G. E. Gray's ' Hand-list ' 

 under the genus Microeca : — 



1. M. conspicillata. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 150; is a Pseudogerygone, and is 

 described later on. 



