OOO JiCSCICAPID^. 



also the iuner edge of the quills below. Total length 4-0 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-35, tail 1-9, tai-sus 08. 

 Hah. Lombock. 



a. S ad. St. Purchased. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Lombock. A. R. \\allace, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



2. Erythromyias muelleri. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 

 Muscicapa muelleri, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 1G6 ; Salvacl. L'cn. Bom. 

 p. 129. 



Adult male (type of species ; Sumatra, Van Horner). General 

 colour above black, with a very slight gloss of slate-colour ; on the 

 rump a few white feathers ; ' wing-coverts and quills black, the 

 median coverts tipped with white, the outer webs of tlie inner 

 secondaries and the innermost of the greater coverts white, fonning 

 a bar down the wing ; two centre tail-feathers black, all the rest 

 white, with about the terminal third black ; entire sides of face and 

 sides of neck black, with a white streak from the hinder part of the 

 eye to the sides of the nape ; throat and breast orange-rufous, gra- 

 dually paling on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are 

 white ; sides of upper breast washed with black ; thighs black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillai'ies white, with a little black patch near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, the primaries obscurely 

 white along their inner edge. Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 2-35, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. (JIus. Lxigd.) 



Hab. Sumatra ; Borneo. 



a. tS ad. sk. Pornoo. I.eideu Museum [P.]. 



3. Erythromyias pyrrhonota. 



Saxicola pyrrhonotus. Mull. 8,- ScJil. JWh. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en 

 Volkenk' p. 209 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 179 ; Bp. Qmsp. i. p. 304 ; 

 Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 

 3268. 



Adult male. Above orange-chestnut, the least and median wing- 

 coverts like the back, the outer greater coverts, primary-coverts and 

 quills black, the inner secondaries orange-chestnut along the outer 

 web ; tail dark brown ; head and hind neck, as well as the cheeks 

 and entire sides of face, glossy black ; under surface of body white, 

 -with a broad black band across the chest reaching round to the 

 sides of the neck and advancing slightly down the sides of the 

 breast, w^here the adjoining feathers are white tipped with black ; 

 sides of body washed with ochraeeous brown ; thighs black ; under 

 wing- and "tail-coverts and axillarics pure white ; quills dusky 

 brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-7, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-8. 



AduU female. Like the male, but with the crown and hind neck 

 Booty brown instead of black ; the sides of the face black ; outer 



