4G6 MtrsciCAPiDiE. 



deep purple ; rest of under surface of body cindory grey, slightly 

 washed with purple, ashy whitish on the abdomen and iinder tail- 

 COTorts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; quills 

 blackish below, lighter along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 black ; legs reddish black ; iris dark brown " {Jerdoii). Total 

 length 4*6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2'45, tail 2*15, tarsi;s 0'6. 



Adult female. Plain olivaceous brown above, lighter beneath, with 

 the neck-patch of a light lavender-blue. 



Toiinr/. Blackish ; the feathers of the upper surface spotted, and 

 the breast streaked, with ochraceous buff; tail purplish blue ; wings 

 black, the feathers externally washed with purple ; breast, abdomen, 

 and under wing-coverts pure white, as in the adult. 



Ilab. Himalayas, extending into the Bui-mese countries. 



a. c? ad. St. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



h, c, d. S ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [Rl 



e. 2 ad. ; /. ^ juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



g,l>- c? $ ad.; i, Juv. sk. Daijiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. [P.]. 



69. CASSINIA. „ 



Type. 



Cassinia, Hartl. Rev. et Mag. de Zod. 1860, p. 82 C. fraseri. 



Cf. Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 53. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Outer tail-feathers pale orange-rufous towards the 

 tip; upper surface ohve-brown, washed with 

 rufous; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts chestnut fraseri, p. 46G. 



h. Outer tail-feathers white at the ends ; upper sur- 

 face ashy brown, with a very slight tinge of 

 rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts .... Jinschi, p. 467. 



c. Outer tail-feathers grey, like the rest of the tail ; 



upper surface ashy grey semipartita, p. 468. 



1. Cassinia fraseri, 



Muscicapa fraseri, StricM. P. Z. S. 1844, p. 101 ; Allen 4 Thomps. 



Exped. Niger, ii. p. 491 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p, 95 ; Bouvier, Cat. 



Ois. Marche i^-c. p. 19. 

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

 Cassinia rubicimda, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1860, p. 82; id. J. f. O. 1861, 



p. 168 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 54, pi. 2. tig. 1 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 42, no. 398; Bocage, Orn. Aiu/ola, p. 189; Sharpe ^ Bouvier, 



Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. .'?b7. 

 Smithornis fraseri, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4869. 

 Sniithomis rubicunda, Gray, t. c. i. p. 324, no. 4870. 

 Cassinia fraseri, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 54. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour olive-brown, some- 

 what inclining to rufoiis-brown, darker on the head; the lower back, 



