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M USCICAPlDiK. 



white ; thighs brown ; axillariea brown, externally ochraceous ; 

 under wiiig-coverfcs whitish, with dusky bases to the feathers : " bill 

 and feet black ; iris dark brown " (Jerdon). Total length 7 inches, 

 cnlmen 0-45, wing 2-85, tail 3-85, tarsus 0-75. 



Half of the tail of Ehipidura pccf oralis (reduced). 



Hah. Southern India. 



«. Ad. sk. India. 



h. Ad. sk. Godavery Valley, near Duuia- W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 

 giidium, April 10, 1871. 



4G. Ehipidura layardi. 



Rliipidura albogularis, Layarcl, P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 29, 434 {iiec Less.) : 

 Fmsch, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 20 ; uL Journ. M^ts. Godeffr. Heft xii. 

 p. 9. 



Rliipidura albicoUis {mc V.), Layanl, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 493. 



Rhipidura layardi, Salvad. Ibis, 1877, p. 143. 



Adult male. General colour above smoky brown, the upper tail- 

 coverts darker ; head and neck more ashy brown, slightly varied with 

 nearly obsolete darker markings on the tips of the feathers ; sides of 

 face also ashy brown, with a distinct streak of white from the base 

 of the nostrils to above the eye ; behind the eye an indistinct whitish 

 streak running above the ear-coverts ; wing-coverts smoky brown, 

 with a few tiny spots of white at the tips of some of the median and 

 greater coverts, which are rather darker brown like the quills, the 

 innermost secondaries washed with smoky brown like the back ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, the four outer ones on each side tipped 

 with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is 

 also externally white, the shafts of all blackish, excepting for the 

 white tips on the outer feathers, which are accompanied by a white 

 shaft ; cheeks and throat dull whitisli, unspotted ; fore nock white, 

 with broad black centres to the feathers, imparting a broadly streaked 

 appearance to this part and the breast, which is, like the rest of 

 under surface, ochraceous buff', broadly streaked with black, the 



