10 MUBUIOAPIDJS. 



have been procured from Central Asia having probably found their 

 way thither from the west. This species is found in India from 

 October to April. 



Habits, <$fc. This bird breeds in Europe, making a nest of moss 

 lined with grass and hairs, either against the trunk of a tree or in 

 a hollow of the trunk The eggs are pale green, marked with 

 piukish brown, and measure about "65 by '53. 



562. Siphia albicilla. The Eastern Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa albicilla, Pall. Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. i, p. 462, Aves, tab. i 



(1811) ; Sharpe, Cat. R. M.'iv, p. 162 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 278. 

 Eiythrosterna leueura (Gm.), Rlyth, Cat. p. 171 ; Hortf. # M. Cat. 



i, p. 297 ; Jerd. R. I. i, p. 481. 

 Eiythrosterna albicilla (Pall.), Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 621 ; 

 Hume &) Dav. S. F. vi, p. 233 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 280 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 323. 

 Tlie White-tailed Robin Flycatcher, Jerd.; Turra, Hind.; Chut-ki, 

 Beng. 



Coloration. Male. Similar to the male of S. parva, but having 

 only the chin and throat chestnut, and not the breast, which is 

 ashy ; it differs also in the crown being, in freshly moulted birds 

 in good plumage, of the same colour as the back, and in the ear- 

 coverts being brown instead of bluish ashy. 



Female. So similar to the female of /S. parva, as to be undistin- 

 guishable from it. 



I have not been able to examine nestlings of this species, but 

 there is no reason to think that they differ from those of S. parva. 

 The youngest birds I have seen are like the females, but with some 

 fulvous tips to the wing-coverts. 



Bill dark brown, yellowish at the gape ; mouth yellow ; iris 

 hazel-brown ; legs and claws black ; eyelids grey. 



Length about 5; tail 2-1; wing 27; tarsus '65; bill from 

 gape "6. 



Distribution. Visits the Eastern portion of the Empire from 

 October to April, extending on the west as far as Nepal in the 

 Himalayas and Dinapore in the plains, and southwards to Tenas- 

 serim. This species summers in Eastern Siberia and Northern 

 China. 



Habits, fyc. The nest and eggs of this bird do not appear to be 

 known. This Flycatcher frequents groves of trees, running among 

 the larger branches and constantly flitting its tail up and down 

 and partially expanding it. 



563. Siphia hyperythra. The Indian Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



Siphia hvperythra, Cabanis, J.f. Orn. 1866, p. 301 ; Oates in Hume's 

 N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 2. 



rythrosterna parva (Rechst.), Brooks, J. A. S. R. xli, pt. ii, p. 76, 

 xliii, pt. ii, p. 245. 



