10. MUSCICAPA. 163 



En'throsterna leucura, Bhjth, Cut. B. Mas. A. <S'. B. p. 171 ; Bp. Conrp. 



f. p. 318 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. Co. i. p. 297 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 481 ;" Sidnh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 290; Godwin-Aust. J. A. 



S. B. 1870, p. 101 ; Bbfth S,- IValden, B. Burm. p. 103 : Hum«, 



Str. F. 1874, p. 47o, 1875, p. lOo ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fi-ance, 



i. p. ICO ; Armstr. Str. F. 1870, p. 323. 

 Muscicapa parva {rwc Bechst.), Schrenck, Amur-Beise, p. 374 ; Radde, 



Bei.s. Sibir. p. 207. 

 Thamnobia niveiventris, S'winh. Ibis, 1860, p. 54. 

 Erythrostema mugimaki, Sicinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 330 {nee T. Sf S.). 

 Erythrostema albicilla, Stc{?ik. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 317 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 380 ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 405 ; David ^- Oust. Ois. de la Chine, 



p. 120, pi. 79 ; Hume l^- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 223. 

 Muscicapa leucurus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 322, no. 4840. 



Adult male. Brown above, the lores and sides of face light grey, 

 this colour descending on each side of the orange throat onto the 

 sides of the neck ; throat deep orange ; rest of under surface of body 

 buffy white, the flanks deep fulvous ; qiiiJls and tail as in M.parva ; 

 "bill dark brown, yellow at gape, and greyish at base of lower man- 

 dible ; inside of mouth orauge-lieshy ; legs verj- dark brown, almost 

 black, claws dark brown ; eyelids dark plumbeous ; iris dark brown" 

 {Oates). Total length 4"5 inches, culmen 0'35, wing 2-65, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0-6o. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of M.parva. Yt'ing 2"7 inches, 

 tail 2"0, tarsus 0"65. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, throughout China and the Burmese coun- 

 tries to Pegu and Tenasserim. 



a,h. cJ 2 fi<l- sk. Tientsin, China {Flem- Mr. ^Miitely. 

 ing). 



c. 5 ad. sk. Amoy. Purclia-sed. 



d. (S ad. sk. India. Secretarv of State for 



India "[P.]- 



e. 2 ad. .«k. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 /. c? ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [?.]. 

 ff, h, i. (S ad. ; k. $ Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



l,m,n,o. (S ]u.v.sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



p. 2 ad. sk. UpperAssam(D)-. iJ^'/tf). Pi. B. SLai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



q. cJ ad. sk. Shillong. Colonel H. H. Godwin- 



Austen [P.]. 



r. cj juv. sk. Bhamau, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Jan. 23, 1868. 



«. 2 ad. sk. Pegu. "SV. T.Blanford,Esq.[P.]. 



12. Muscicapa hyperythra. 



Siphia hyperythra, Cabanis, J.f. O. 18C6, p. 391 ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 472". 

 Menetica hyperythra, Cabanis, J.f. O. 1860, p. 401. 

 Niltava hyjjeiythra, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4901. 

 Erythrostema hyperythra, Holdstc. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 442, pi. 17; 



Hvmf, Nests 4" Fr/'gs Ind. B. p. 217 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 236. 



Adult male. General colour above umber-brown, becoming more 

 ashy on the rump, the upper tail-covcrts blackish ; least wing- 



