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greater coverts, aud outer secondaries also, edged with light orange- 

 chest imt. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-4, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0-75. 

 Hab. Timor. 



a, 6. c? $ ad. sk. East Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0,]. 



c. (S ad. sL Timor. 



14. POLIOMYIAS. 



Erj'throstenia, pt., aurtt. 

 Siphia, pt., mictt. 



Bill of Poliomyias luteola. 



Of the general aspect and style of plumage of the E.ed-breasted 

 Flycatchers {Mascicapa, section Erythrosteraa), but having long 

 wings as in Pet rosea and Miiscicapula. 



Range. Eastern Siberia and Japan, migrating through China to 

 the Malayan peninsula and islands ; Eastern Himalayas, ranging 

 into the hills of Western China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Inner greater wing-coverts white, forming a conspi- 



cuous patch luteola, p. 201. 



b. No white patch on the wing-coverts, which are grey 



like the hack kodt/soni, p. 203. 



1. Poliomyias luteola. 



Motacilla luteola, Pall. Zoor/r. Itosso-Asiat. i. p. 470. 



Muscicapa mugimaki, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 577. fig. 2 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. 1. p. 262 ; Temm. Sf Schl. Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 47, Taf. xvii. B ; 



Blakist. Sf Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 234. 

 Erytlirosterna rufigula, S. Midler, in V. d. Hoeven's Tijdschr. 1835, 



p. 351 {ex Kuhl, MSS.) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 319 ; Sharjye, Notes Leyden 



Mus. i. no. 8, p. 20. 

 Siphia erythaca, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 126. 

 Xanthopygia mugimakd, Bp. Consp. i. p. 327. 

 Erythrosterna ei\-thaca, Horsf. 6f Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 412; Moore,' P. Z. S. 1854, p. 283; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 127. 

 Muscicapa luteola, Middend. Sihir. Feise, ii. p. 186, Taf. 17. tigs. 1-3; 



Schrenck, Feise Amurl. p. 375, Taf. 13. tig. 1 ; Fadde, Sibir. Feis, 



p. 269; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4820. 

 Muscicapa hylocharia, Sicinh. Ibis, 1862, p. 305 (nee T. ^- S.). 

 Muscicapa rutigularis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4845. 

 Niltava er\'thaca. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 327, no. 4908. 

 Ervthrosterna luteola, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 380 ; Dyboivsk. J. f. O. 



1872, p. 449; Taez. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 169; David ^^ 



Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 121. 

 Siphia erythrura (lapsu^, T'err. X. Arch. Mtis. vii. Bull. p. 29. 



Adult male, (xcncral colotir above slaty grey, rather darker on 

 the mantle and back, the latter having greyish-white shafts to the 

 feathers ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers black, with broad 

 white bases to all but the two centre ones, this white coloured- 



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