344 MUSCICAPIDJi. 



blue-grey : a narrow frontal line, lores, a spot at the base of the 

 lower" mandible, and the chin black ; wattled eyelid bright blue ; 

 bill bright bine, inside of mouth and tongue leaf-green ; iris black. 

 Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-85, tail 4-25, tarsus 

 0-75. (Coll. J. B. Steere.) 



Hah. Island of Palawan, Philippines. 



48. TERPSIPHONE^ 



Type. 



Museivora (pt.), Cuvier, Le<;o'ns Anat. Comp. tabl. ii. 



Muscipeta (pt.), id. Regne Anim. i. p. .345 (1817). 



Terpsipbone, Gloger, in Froriep's Notiz. xvi. p. 278 (1827) T. -paradisi. 



Tchitrea, Less. Troite d'Orn. p. 386 (1831) T. paradisi. 



Bill of Terpsiphojie paradisi. 



Range. From Africa and Madagascar to India, Ceylon, and the 

 Burmese countries, through China to Japan ; MaLiyan peninsula ; 

 Java ; Sumati'a ; Borneo ; Flores. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail white, with more or less of black mar- 

 gins. 

 «'. Under surface of bodj' ■white. 



a". Larger; culmen not less than 0"8inch; 



tail exceeding 12 inches in length. 



a'". Occipital crest long and pointed, 



reaching in prepared skin as far 



as the mantle ; feathers not 



black-shafted paradisi ^ , p. 34G. 



//". Occipital crest moderate and re- 

 stricted, forming a dense cir- 

 cular crest not produced beyond 

 the nape ; feathers black- 

 shafted, including the long tail- 

 plumes affinis cJ ad., p. 349. 



* Cuvier's genus Museivora was a composite one, and intended to embrace not 

 only some broad-billed Flycatchers of the Old World, but also some of the New 

 World Tyrant-Flycatchers. Muscipda of Cuvier, 1817, was intended by him to 

 replace his Museivora of 1799 ; but the name could not then be used, as it was 

 preoccupied by Muscipeta of Koch, 1816, proposed for the Reed -Warblers of 

 Europe. Museivora is now restricted to the Crested Tyrants of the New World 

 {M.regia, &c.); and it is therefore quite proper to employ the name Terpsi- 

 phone of Gloger for the Paradise Flycatchers, which formed the Old- World 

 section of Cuvier's original genus Museivora. 



