ANTHIPES. 



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one T observed in Pegu was solitary and silent, and was perched 

 on a stalk of elephant-grass. 



582. Muscitrea grisola. The Grey Flycatch< r. 



Tephrodornis grisola, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 180* (1843) ; id. Cat. 



p. 153 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 111. 

 Muscitrea cinerea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 122; Hume, S. t. v, 



p. 101. 

 Hylocharis philomela (Bote), Hume, S. F. n, p. 201. 

 Hylocharis occipitalis,' Hume, S. F. ii, p. 202 (1874). 

 Muscitrea grisola (BL), Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 206 ; Hume, tat. 



no. 266] Oates, B. B.i, p. 257. 

 Pachycephala grisola (BL), Gadow, Cat. B. M. vm, p. 220. 



The Arakan IVood-Shrike, Jerd. 



Figs. 11 & 12.— Head and bill of M. grisola. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, and lores ashy brown ; upper 

 plumage, wings, and tail rufous- or olive-brown, the secondaries 

 broadly edged with rufous ; sides of the head pale brown ; chin 

 and throat white mottled with ashy ; breast pale ashy ; remainder 

 of lower plumage and under wing-coverts white. 



The young are slightly rufous. 



Bill dark brownish black ; mouth flesh-colour ; iris reddish 

 brown; eyelids plumbeous; legs plumbeous; claws pale horn- 

 colour. 



Length about 6*5 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 



gape - 8. 



Some specimens are paler and greyer, others darker and browner, 

 and the plumage varies apparently according to the length of time 

 which has elapsed since the moult in the autumn. 



Distribution. Jerdon states that this species has been procured 

 near Calcutta; it occurs in the Andaman Islands, Arrakan, Pegu, 

 and Tenasserim, extending to the Malay peninsula and islands. 



Genus ANTHIPES, Blyth, 1847. 



I place in the genus Antliipes&xe species of Flycatchers in which 

 the sexes are alike, the plumage brown or rufous, relieved, in the 

 case of three, by a patch of white on the throat, the bill flattened, 

 the first primary large, and the lower mandible dark coloured. 

 Thev are all very local, and they are not known to migrate. 



In additiou to the above characters the rictal bristles are long 

 but few in number, and the tail is square. 



