10. MUSCICAPA. lo3 



.r, I/, c? atl. ; s. Jiiv. sk. Oudonga, Ovampo IJ. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Land, Nov. 186(3 



(C. J. AndiTsson). 

 a', c? ad. .9k. Elephant Vley, Da- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



mara Land, Oct. 19, 



1859 (C. J. .4.). 

 //. 2 ad. sk. Pinetown, Natal, Feb. R. B. Shavpe, Esq. [P.]. 



4,187o(T. L.Ayres). 

 c'. Ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



2. Muscicapa griseisticta. 



Biitalis manillensis, Bj). C. H. xxxviii. p. 652 (wee Muscicapa manil- 



lensis, Gm. ex Sonn. ; nee Vieill. N. Diet. xxi. p. 470, ex Su7vierat) ; 



Wakleti, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 66, ix. p. 183 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 



new series, i. p. 326 ; Ttceedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 694. 

 Hemichelidon fuliginosa, Sicinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 57 (nee Hodgs.). 

 Hemiehelidon griseosticta, Sivinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 330. 

 Butalis hypogrammica, Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 350 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. 



vii. p. G^. 

 Butalis griseosticta, Stoinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 288, 1866, p. 131, 1871, 



p. 379'; David 8; Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 122._ 

 Muscicapa hj-pogrammica, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4814. 



Adult. Above brown, the head slightly mottled with darker cen- 

 tres to the feathers ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series 

 with light ends to the feathers ; primary-coverts and primaries dark 

 brown, lighter on the edges of the feathers, the secondaries decidedly 

 paler on the margins : tail brown ; ear-coverts brown like the head ; 

 lores white ; cheeks also brown, mottled with white bases to the 

 feathers ; throat white, mottled with brown edges to the feathers, 

 especially along the moustachial line ; breast and sides of body 

 brown, the former with white edges to the feathers, imparting a 

 streaked appearance ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; thighs 

 white, with brown bases ; imder wing-coverts fulvous-brown, vrith 

 ashy bases to the feathers ; quUls brown, more ashy along the inner 

 webs ; " iris brown ; bill brown, with a little yellow at the base of 

 the lower mandible ; feet brown " (David). Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 3-25, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-5. 



Ohs. Specimens differ in the distinctness of the markings on the 

 under surface, which is more striped with brown in some examples 

 than in others. 



Hub. China, ranging southwards to the Philippines and the Mo- 

 luccas. 



a. Ad. sk. Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [CI. 



c, rf, (?. Ad. sk. Mortv Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. fC". 



/. Ad. sk. E. Ceram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



g. c7 ad. sk. Ceram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(T'i'pe of B. hypogrammica.) 



