28. XANTHOPYGIA. 251 



Butalis li}'locharis, Bp. Cousp. i. p. 318. 



Muscicapa tricolor, (rmi/, Hand-l. ^. i. p. 323, no. 4847. 



Xanthopj'gia hylocliaris, David ^- Omtalet, Ois. Chine, p. 119. 



Adult male. General colour above black, the lower back and 

 rump bright 3-ellow ; upper tail-coverts and tail black ; wings also 

 black, excepting a white band down the inner portion, composed of 

 the inner greater coverts, some of which are white on the outer 

 web and some entirely white, one of the inner secondaries also 

 having its outer web white ; a narrow loral line, feathers round the 

 eye, and sides of the face black ; over the ej^e a broad superciliary 

 streak of white, running not quite to the base of the nostrils, from 

 which it is separated by the foregoing narrow black loral line ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body bright yellow, a little paler 

 towards the vent ; under tail-coverts white ; thighs white, with 

 dull black bases ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; 

 quills blackish below, white along the inner webs ; " bill black ; 

 feet bluish ; iris black " (David). Total length 4-9 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-9, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above olive-brown, in- 

 clining to greenish on the lower back ; rump lemon-yellow ; upper 

 tail-coverts and taU. black ; wings as in the male, but browner ; 

 sides of face olive-brown, the ear-coverts washed with yellow ; 

 lores and feathers round the eye dull white ; imder surface of body 

 very pale yellow, the throat and chest with remains of obscui-e 

 ashy margins to the feathers ; under wing- and tail-coverts white. 

 Total length 5 inches, wing 2-65, tail 1-85, tarsus 0-6. {Mus. H. 

 SeeboJim.) 



Hah. Japan, ranging through China southwards to the Malayan 

 peninsula. 



a. Ad. St. Japan. Leyden Museum. 



b. S ad. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M.' A. Bouvier. 



c. 5 juv. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



3. Xanthopygia cyanomelaena. 



Muscicapa cyanomelana, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 470; Tenim. ^- Schl. 



Faun. Jap. p. 47. 

 Muscicapa bella, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 158. 

 Cyanoptila cyanomelaniira, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 125 ; id. Cat. B. 



Mm. A. S. B. p. 174 ; id. His, 1870, p. 164. 

 Niltara cyanomelaena, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 264; Swinh. Ibis, 1860, 



p. 380, et 1861, p. 41 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4892. 

 Muscicapa melanoleuca, Temm. 8^ ScM. Faun. Japan., Aves, pi. 17 D. 

 Muscicapa gularis, Temm. ^- Schl. t, c. pi. 16 ( $ ). 

 Butalis gularis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 318. 

 Hypothvmis cyanomeltena, Bj). Consp. i. p. 320 ; Cass, in Perry's 



Exp. 'Japan, p. 239 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1862, p. 306. 

 Cvanoptila cvonomf'l.i(?na, Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. 

 ■p. 291 ; Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 386 ; David ■^^ Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 



p. 116, pi. 81 ; Blakiston i^- Pi-yer, Ibis, 1878, p. 234. 



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