32. STENOSTIRA. 



267 



white ; quills dark brown below, fulvescent along the inner webs. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2'55, tail 2-45, tarsus 

 0-85. 



Young. Brown, like the old female, but the upper surface mottled 

 aU over with longitudinal fulvous spots and streaks on the feathers, 

 very lai'ge and distinct on the upper wing-coverts ; greater coverts 

 and quills edged with rufous ; sides of face mottled, like the crown, 

 with fulvous streaks ; under surface of body fulvous, the feathers 

 edged with dusky brown, producing a mottled appearance. 



Hah. India and the Bm'mese countries, ranging eastwards into 

 China. 



«, h,c. (S\ d, e. 2 ad. sk. 



/. Juv. sk. 



g. c? ad. sk. 



h-l. (} sestiv. sk. 



m. 2 festiv. sk. 



n, 0. S; p. 2 hiem. sk. 



q-u. Juv. sk. 



V. 2 ad. sk. 



U3. (S hiem. sk. 



X. cS juv. sk. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



Murree. 



Nepal. 

 Nepal. 

 Nepal. 

 Nepal. 

 Benar. 

 Bootan. 



Bootan Dooars,S.E. 

 Himalavas, Aug. 

 1870. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



apt. 



[P-] 

 apt. ( 



fp.]. 

 ■H.H 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



B.H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.] 



B.H.Hodgson, Esq. [P.I. 

 B.H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 1. 

 B.H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Secretary of State for 



India [P.]. 

 W.T.BlanfbrdEsq. [P.]. 



32. STENOSTIRA. 



Stenostira, Cah. ^ Bp. in Bp. Consp. i. p. 316 (1850) . 

 Empidivora, Reichenh. Syst. Av. Nat. pi. Ixviii. (1850) 



Type. 

 S. scita. 

 S. scita. 



Bill of Stenostira scita. 

 Eange. Confined to South Africa. 



1. Stenostira scita. 



Le Goube-mouches mignard, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pp. 14, 154. 

 Muscicapa scita, Vieili. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 474. 

 Muscicapa tenella, Licht. Verz. Vog. Kaffernl. p. 12. 

 Platystira longipes, Sxvains. Monogr. Flycatchers, p. 185, pi. 21 ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 143. 

 Platystira scita, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 256 ; id. Eand-l. B. i. p. 330, 



no. 4950. 

 Stenostira scita. Cab. ^ Bp. Consp. i. p. 316; Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 175. 



Adult male. Above greyish, a little paler on the rump ; wings 



t2 



