162 MUSCICAPID^. 



dark brown for the terminal third and for a little distance along the 

 outer web ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck clear orange ; remainder 

 of under surface white, the sides of the body inclining to buif, the 

 thighs more ashy ; under wing-coverts fulvous like the sides of the 

 body ; quills brown below, fulvescent along the inner web ; " bill 

 horn-brown, lighter at base of lower mandible ; legs dark brown ; 

 iris brown " (Dre.^ser). Total length 5"1 inches, culmeu 0*4, wing 

 2'6, tail 2, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Brown above, with no 

 grey on the head or neck, the sides of face and ear-coverts also 

 brown ; wings brown, the greater coverts and quills with edgings of 

 lighter brown ; throat, chest, and sides of body suffused with yel- 

 lowish buff, the abdomen and under tail-coverts white. Total 

 length 4"9 inches, wing 2-6, tail 2, tarsus 0-Go. 



Young. Mottled all over ; ochraceous above, all the feathers 

 edged with dusky brown, the rump and upper tail-coverts lighter ; 

 wings brown, the upper wing-coverts tipped with spots of ochra- 

 ceous, the quills edged with rufous-brown ; ring round the eye and 

 sides of face light ochraceous, as also the under surface of body, the 

 breast-feathers edged with dusky ; tail as in adult. 



Hab. Central and South-eastern Europe, ranging into North- 

 western India. 



a. Pull. sk. Europe. Purchased. 



b. c? ad. sk. Belgrade, Turkey, March 1873 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(T. Sobson). [P.]. 



c. 2 ^<l-)^>^)/- Sweet Waters, near Constanti- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 cJ$ juv.sk. nople, Sept. 2, 1876 {JV. [P.]. 



Pearce). 

 ff. (S ad. sk. Dizak, Baluchistan, March 22, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



1872. [C.]. 



h. c? ad. sk. Gondul, Kattiawar, Nov. 26, Major Hayes Lloyd 



1871. [P.]. 



t. cS ad. sk. Cashmere. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 k,l. c?ad.;m, ?j. N.W.Himalayas. Captain Stackhouse 



2 ad. sk. PinwiU [P.]. ■ 



o. c? ad. sk. Umballa. Oapt. C. H. T. Mar- 



shall [P.]. 

 p. 2 ad. sk. India. Hon. E. India Co. 



[Po- 



ll. Muscicapa albicilla. 



Muscicapa alhiciUa, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. i. p. 462, Aves, tab. 1. 



Saxicola rubeculoides, Sykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 92. 



PErythaca tvtleri, Jameson, Edinh. Phil. Journ. 1835, p. 214 (descr. 



mdlii) ; Jdrd. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 28. 

 Muscicapa leucura*, Sivains. Nat. Hist. Flyc. p. 253 (^nec Gm.) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 322, n. 4840. 

 Synornis leucura, Hodys in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83. 

 Synornis joulaimus, Ilodgs. t. c. p. 83 ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26. 



* The Nofncilla leucura, Gm. S. N. i. p. 939, is founder! on a White-failed 

 Flycatcher o^ Latham (Gen. Syn. ii. p. 331) from South Africa, and does not 

 apparently belong to tliis eper-ies. 



