15. JIUSC'IfAPULA. 205 



Total length 4-5 inches, ciilmen U'4o, wing 2-45, tail 1'65, tarsus 

 0-6-j. 



Adult female. General colour above ashy olive, browner on the 

 rump ; wing-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged -with pale rusty 

 brown ; tail-feathers dull brown, shaded with blue on their edges ; 

 lores and a ring of feathers round the eye and feathers in front of it 

 rusty buff ; ear-coverts ashy olive, with thread-like whitish shaft- 

 lines ; throat and breast rusty fulvous, shaded with ashy olive on 

 the sides of the latter ; rest of under surface pure white, washed 

 with buff on the Hanks ; thighs brown ; under wing-coverts buify 

 whitish, with brown bases to the feathers, the lower series and the 

 quills below dull brown, edged with ashy white along the inner 

 web. Total length 4-5 inches, wing 2-4, tail 1-05, tarsus 0"6. 



Hab. Himalaya Mountains, visiting the plains of India in the 

 cold weather ; Burmese countries. 



a. c? ad. sk. India. Pm-cha.?ed. 



b, c. (5 ad. ; d. $ ad. sk, Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 e,f. S ad. .<t. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. | P. 

 f/, h. c? $ ad. .«k. Murree. Capt. T. Biddulph [C.]. 

 i. 2 ad.sk. N.W.India (Cupt. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



G.F.L.Murshall). 

 k, I. (^ ad.; m, n. $ ad. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



sk. ' ["p.]. 



o,p. (S juv. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



fp.]. 



2. Muscicapula astigma. 



Muscicapa astigma, Hvdgs. Icon. incd. Passeres, pi. 206. fig. .3 {Hodgs. 



no. 64j ; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 84 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sfc. 



Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 90, App. p. 155 ; id. jiand-l. B. i. p. 322, 



no. 48.36. 

 Muscicapula astigma, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 



297, no. 460 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 372 ; Godwin-Aitsten, J. A. S. B. 



1874, p. 157, et 1876, p. 201. 



Adult male. General colour above dull Prussian blue, lighter on 

 the forehead and over the eye, forming an indistinct eyebrow ; wing- 

 coverts and ([uills brown, edged with didl blue ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, edged with dull blue, but with no white base to any of them ; 

 lores and feathers in front of eye blue-ldack ; sides of face dull blue ; 

 throat and foro neck white, the sides blue as well as the sides of the 

 neck and breast, forming an interrupted band across the latter of dull 

 blue ; remainder of under surface white, the thighs Ijluish ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the lower series dull brown, as also the quills 

 below, edged along the inner web witli buffy white : " bill black ; 

 legs dark brown" {.Godiviu- Austen). Total length 4 inches, cidmen 

 0-4o, wing 2-45, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-IJ5. 



Femali'. A'cry similar to that of M. sajjerciliaris, but distin- 

 guished by the rusty buff-colour of the throat being distributed 

 over the entire abdomen as well, leaving only the under tail-coverts 

 dull white. Total length 1-5 indies, wing 2-2, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6. 



