250 MUSCICAPIDJE. 



Zautbopygia clirysophrys, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 124. 

 Zanthopygia naicissina, Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 155; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 327 ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 283 ; 



Sivinh. Ibis, ISCO. p. 58 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 380 ; David ^- Oustal. 



Ots. Chine, p. 119; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, vol. i. 



327 ; Blakiston 8) Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 234. 



Adult male. General colour above black, as also the scapulars, 

 the latter with a slight wash of yellow ; from the base of the upper 

 mandible over the eyes a broad streak of brilliant yellow ; lores, 

 sides of face, and sides of neck black ; wings black, the primaries 

 indistinctly shaded with obscure ashy brown, the inner median and 

 greater coverts white on the inner web, the innermost entirely pure 

 white, forming a large shoulder-patch ; entire lower back and rump 

 bright yellow inclining to orange ; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy 

 black ; under surface of body bright orange, paling into yellow on 

 the breast, and shading off into white on the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, the latter being pure white ; sides of the breast 

 black, the flanks greyish black washed with yellowish ; thighs 

 black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the outermost slaty 

 black, edged with white, the quills dusky brown below, white at 

 the base of the inner web. Total length 5'3 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 3-lo, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, inclining to 

 greenish olive on the rump : upper tail-coverts and tail rufous, the 

 latter brown at the tip and on the inner webs of the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts brown, the greater and median series edged and tipped 

 with pale rufous or dull white ; primary-coverts uniform brown ; 

 quills brown, narrowly edged with pale rufous, rather more broadly 

 on the secondaries ; lores and feathers over the eye, as well as a 

 ring of feathers round the latter, yellowish white ; feathers in front 

 of the eye dusky ; ear-coverts brown ; under surface of body 

 whitish, washed with yellow, somewhat brighter on the throat, 

 many of the feathers mottled with edgings of dusky brown ; under 

 wing-coverts brownish white, those along the edge of the wing 

 brown. Total length 4-6 inches, wing 2-95, tail 1-95, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. China and Japan, ranging into the Philippines in winter. 



a. Ad. st. China. J. E. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Amoy, May 1861. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Japan. Leiden Museum. 



2. Xanthopygia tricolor. 



Muscicapa xanthopygia, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 162. 

 Muscicapa (Muscicapula) tricolor, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 406. 

 Zanthopygia leucoplirys, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xvi. p. 154; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 155 ; Bj). Consp. i. p. 326 ; Smnh. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 410; id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 317. 

 Zanthopygia tricolor, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. App. p. xxi ; 



Horsf. ^Sr Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 284 ; Sirinh. P. Z. S. 



1871", p. 380 ; David Sj- Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 118, pi. 80. 

 Musicapa hylocharis, Temm, 8f Schl. Faun. Japon., Aves, p. 44, 



pi. 17(5). 



