206 Ml'SCICAPID^. 



Hub. Eastern Himalaya mountains, extending to the Khasi hills. 



a. $ juv. sk. India. Purchased. 



6. cf ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



3. Muscicapula hyperythra. 



Dimorpha superciliaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 190 (nee Jerd.) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 319. 

 Muscicapa hyperythra, Blytli, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 885, xvi. p. 127. 

 Muscicapula rubecula, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 940. 

 Dimorpha rubrocvanea, Hodgs. Icon. hied. no. 384 ; id. in Gray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26. 

 Dimorpha leucocyanea, Hodgs. Icon. ined. no. 837; id. in Gray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 83. 

 Muscicapa rubecula. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263. 

 Siphia superciliaris, Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Cull. Hodgs. p. 92 ; 



Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 172 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 44, et 1866, 



p. 372. 

 Digenea superciliaris. Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. 



p. 293; Swinh. F. Z. S^ 1871, p. 381; David 4" Oustalet, Ois. 



Chine, p. 114. 

 Muscicapa tricolor, Bhjth, Ibis, 1865, p. 44 (e.i: Midi. MS. in Mus. 



Luffd.,= ,S); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 327, no. 4907. 

 Muscicapa rupestris, Blyth, I. c. p. 44 (e.v Miill. MS.,= 2 ). 

 Siphia innexa, Sivinh. Ibis, 1866, p. 394. 

 Niltava superciliaris, Gray, Hand-I. B. i. p. 327, no. 4904. 

 Niltava innexa, Gray, t. c. p. 327, no. 4909. 

 Menetica superciliaris. Cab. J.f. O. 1876, p. .393. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue, including the lores, 

 sides of face, cheeks, and chin, darker ou the latter ; from the base 

 of the forehead a distinct line of white feathers extending back- 

 wards over the eye ; scapulars and wing-coverts uniform with the 

 back, the greater series brown, tipped with rufous ; quills brown, 

 edged with olivaceous ; tail blackish brown, the feathers edged with 

 ■ slaty grey ; throat and breast orange-rufous, the abdomen and lower 

 breast paler orange, inclining to whitish on the under tail-coverts ; 

 sides of upper breast slaty grey ; thighs slaty grey, as also the under 

 wing-coverts, the greater series tipped with orange ; quiUs brown, 

 fulvescent along the inner webs ; " bill black ; legs plumbeous ; iris 

 brown " (Jerdon). Total length 4*1 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2-3, 

 tail 1-7, tarsus 0-7. 



Young male. Mottled with ochraceous buff spots and streaks, like 

 a young E-obin. 



Hub. Eastern Himalayas, Khasi hills, extending eastwards as far 

 as the island of Formosa and south to Java and Sumatra and Timor. 



a. Ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. cJ ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. I C.J. 



c. cj juv. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 d,e. d 2 ad. sk. Darjiling. Capt. C. H. T. Marshall [P.]. 

 /. cJ ad. sk. Sikhim, Nov. 1876. L. Mandelli, Esq. [P.]. 



g. Juv. sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq.fC.]. 



h, i, k. cJ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



1, m, 5 ad.; n. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 



