CTORNIS. 



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Bill, legs, and claws black ; iris deep brown. 



Length about 4-5 ; tail 17 ; wing 2'4 ; tarsus '0 ; bill from 

 gape *55. 



Distribution. The Himalayas, from Nepal to the extreme east of 

 Assam, up to 7000 feet ; the eastern portion of the Empire, from 

 the Eajmehal hills, Maunbhoom, Hingbhoom, and Midnapore, 

 through Bengal and Assam, down to Tenasserim and Karennee, 

 extending to Sumatra and Java. This species breeds in the 

 Himalayas and also in the Khasi hills ; and from the latter 

 locality I have seen young nestlings procured in June. To the 

 other parts above mentioned it appears to be a winter visitor. The 

 nest of this Flycatcher does not yet appear to have been found. 



570. Cyornis astigma. The Little Blue-and-white Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa astigma, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc.y*. 84 (1844) ; Gray, 



Cat. Mamm. etc. Coll. Hodgs. p. 90, App. p. 155 (1846). 

 Muscicapula aestigma (Hotly*.), Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 297 ; Jerd. 



B. I. i, p. 471 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 157, 



xlv, pt. ii, p. 20l, xlvii, pt. ii, p. 22. 

 Muscicapula astigma (Hodgs.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 205 ; Hume, 



Cat. bo. 311 ; id. 8. F. xi, p. 112. 

 Muscicapula superciliaris {Jerd.), apud Oafes, B. B. \, p. 292. 



Coloration. Male. Besembles the male of C. superciliaris. 

 Differs in having no white on the tail-feathers, the supercilium 



Fig. 6. — Bill of C. astigma. 



absent or very faintly indicated, and the white on the throat and 

 breast somewhat narrower. 



Female. Besembles the female of C. superciliaris. Differs, 

 generally speaking, in having the upper tail-coverts more fulvous 

 than the other parts of the upper plumage, and in never having any 

 tinge of blue on these parts, as is almost always the case in 

 C. superciliaris. The plumage may be termed olive-brown on the 

 sides of the neck and breast, and not buff. The females of the two 

 species are, however, difficult to separate unless series of both are 

 examined. 



The young are precisely similar to those of C. superciliaris. 



Bill and legs black ; iris brown (Cod-burn). 



Length about 4'5 ; tail 1*9; wing 26; tarsus -6; bill from 

 gape '6. 



The two female specimens of a Flycatcher procured by Wardlaw 

 Bam say in Karennee, and referred by me to C. superciliaris in the 

 ' Birds' of Burmah,' are now, I find, females of C. astigma. 



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