38 muscicapid^. 



of the head, and the whole wing black, some of the coverts and 

 inner quills very narrowly tipped with orange ; remainder of the 

 plumage rich orange, somewhat paler on the abdomen. 



Female. Resembles the male, but the black is replaced by 

 greenish brown, and the orange-coloured parts of the plumage are 

 paler ; the lores and a large space round the eye are rufous 

 speckled with dusky, and the wings are dark brown. 



I have not been able to examine a young bird of this species. 



Bill black ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet dark plumbeous fleshy 

 (Davison). 



Length about 5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2 - 5 ; tarsus *8 ; bill from gape 'G. 



Distribution. The Hill-ranges of Southern India from the 

 "Wynaad to Cape Comorin at 2500 feet and upwards. This species 

 appears to be common on the Xilgiri, the Palni, and the Assambu 

 hills. Its occurrence in Ceylon is doubtful. Colonel McMaster is 

 of opinion that he observed this bird at Chikalda in Berar. 



Habits, Sfc. Breeds from April to June, constructing a large 

 globular nest of coarse grass and fern-leaves in a clump of reeds 

 or on the summit of a stump of a tree. The eggs, two or three in 

 number, are greyish white marked with brownish red, and measure 

 about *7 by *53. 



Genus CULICICAPA, Swinhoe, 1871. 



The genus Culicicapa contains one species of very wide distri- 

 bution over the Empire, migratory in the plains, but resident in 

 the Himalayas and many of the lull-ranges. 



Fig. 10. — Bill of C. ceylonensis. 



In this genus the sexes are alike and the plumage is grey and 

 yellow. The bill is very much depressed, and viewed from above 

 forms an equilateral triangle; the rictals are extremely numerous 

 and long ; the first primary is short and the tail is square. 



592. Culicicapa ceylonensis. The Grey-headed Flycatcher. 



Platyrhynchus ceylonensis, Stvains. Zool. III. ser. 1, i, pi. 13 (1820-21). 

 Cryptolopha cinereocapilla ( Vieill.), Blyth, Cat. p. 205 ; Horsf. fy M. 



'Cat. i, p. 147 ; Jerd. B. 1. i, p. 455. 

 Myialestes cinereocapilla ( Vieill.), Hume, N. fy E. p. 205. 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis (Swains.), Hume, Cat. no. 295 ; Sadly, S. F. 



viii, p. 275; Sharpe, Cat. B. 31. iv, p. 369; Legge, Birds Cei/l. 



p. 410 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 274 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 162 ; Oa'tes 



in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 16. 



Zirdphutkif Beng. 



