]"). jiuscicAPrLA. 207 



4. Muscicapula maculata. 



Muscicapa maculata, Tickell. J. A. -S. B. ii. p. 574 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



5. i. p. 322, 110. 4841. 

 Muscicapula melanoleuca, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 940, xv. p. 306 



{nee V.) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 172. 

 Muscicapa pooneusis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 458. 

 Muscicapula acoruaus {nee Ilodgs.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 127. 

 Ervthrosterna pusilla, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 813; id. Cat. B. 



Mm. A. S. B. -p. 171: Bp. Comp. i. p. 318; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 482; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 44; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 405; 



Hume, S. P. 1875, p. 236 ; Brooks, S. F. 1875. p. 277, et 1877, 



p. 471. 

 Muscicapa leucoschista, Hodys. Icon. ined. Passeres. pi. 206 (nos. 824, 



942) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84. 

 Muscicapa melanoleuca, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 



(^•c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 91. 

 Muscicapula maculata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 317. 

 Erj-throsterna maculata, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 483, no. 326 ; Blyth, Itis, 



1865, p. 44, et 1866, p. 373 ; Godw.-Austen,J. A. S. B. 1874, p. 158 ; 



Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 407 : Hume, t. c. p. 475 ; Blyth <§- Wald. B. 



Burm. p. 103 ; Brooks, S. F. 1875, pp. 236,277 ; Hume 8,- Davison, 



Str. F. 1878, p. 234. 

 Muscicapa pusOla, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4843. 

 Muscicapula leucoschista, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 372. 



Adult male. General colour above gloss}' blue-black, including 

 the lores, sides of face, and sides of neck ; a broad white eyebrow- 

 running from nearly the base of the nostrils to the sides of the hind 

 neck : wing-coverts like the back, the inner greater coverts white, 

 excepting at the extreme base of the inner web, formiug a large 

 white patch ; quiUs black, the inner secondaries externally white 

 like the greater coverts, and forming a bar down the wing ; two 

 centre tail-feathers entirely black, the others white for nearly two 

 thirds of their length, black for the terminal third ; entire under 

 surface of body pure white, the sides of the upper breast black ; 

 thighs black ; under wing-coverts white ; quills blackish below, 

 white along the edge of the inner Aveb ; " bill black : legs red- 

 brown ; iris dark brown" (Jerdon). Total length 4*2 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2*3, tail 1*7, tarsus 0-6. 



Adidt female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ashy brown, washed with olive, the latter becoming more and more 

 pronounced on the rump ; the upper taU-coverts rufescent ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater series ashy brown, narrowly edged 

 with olive-brown and near the tip with whitish ; priinary-coverts 

 and quills brown, externally edged with olive-brown, the seconda- 

 ries more broadly ; tail-feathers ashy brown, edged with ochraceous 

 or rufous-brown near their bases ; frontal plumes obscurely washed 

 with ochraceous buff; lores dull white; roimd the eye a ring of 

 buffy-white feathers ; sides of face and ear-covcrts ashy brown, with 

 a slight olivaceous wash and indistinct shaft-lines of whitish ; under 

 sui-face of body dull white, tinged with fulvous on "the breast and 

 flanks ; sides of neck and sides of upper lireast ashy ; thighs brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axiUaries white, slightly tinged with buff ; 



