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Bill, legs, and feet black; mouth fleshy white; eyelids grey; 

 iris deep brown; claws blackish born-colour. 



Fig. 22.— Bill of R. albieoUis. 



Length about 7*5; tail 4; wing 2-9; tarsus *75 ; bill from 

 gape -7. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree to Dibrugarh in 

 Assam from their base up to 5000 feet, and occasionally, as re- 

 corded by Stoliczka, up to 9000 ; portions of the Central Provinces 

 and Chutia Nagpur, Ball recording this species from Manbhoom, 

 Lohardugga, Jashpur, Sambalpur north of the Mahanadi, Baipur, 

 and the Godavari valley, and Hume from Bod ; to the west the 

 range of this bird is somewhat undefined, Barnes expressing his 

 belief that it does not occur in the Bombay Presidency, but Mr. 

 B. Aitken stating that it is common both at Bombay and Poona. 

 Sykes obtained it in the Deccan. It is found in Lower and Eastern 

 Bengal, Assam, and all the countries between this latter province 

 and Central Tenasserim, extending into Cochin China. 



Habits, §c. Breeds in May, June, and July, constructing a nest 

 of grass coated with cobwebs, of the shape of an inverted cone, in 

 a small fork on a branch of a tree. The eggs, usually three in 

 number, are fawn-colour or yellowish, marked with grey, and 

 measure about *G5 by *49. 



600. Rhipidura javanica. The Java Fantail Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa j.ivanica, Sparrm. Mas. Carls, iii, pi. 75 (1783j. 

 Leucoceica javanica (Sparrm.), Blt/th, Cat. p. 20b' ; Hume fy Dav. S. 



F. vi, p. 226 ; Hume, Cat. no. 293 bis ; id. S. F. ix, p. 175. 

 Rhipidura javanica (Sparrm.), Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 144; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. iv, p. 332 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 2G7. 

 Leucocerca infuniata, Hume, S. F. i, p. 455 (1873). 



Coloration. Hale. Forehead, crown, and sides of the head sooty 

 brown ; the whole upper plumage and the wings brown, suffused 

 with rufous ; tail dark brown, the four outer pairs of feathers 

 broadly tipped with white, the pair next to these very narrowly 

 tipped with white ; a short supercilium white; chin, a band across 

 the upper breast, and the sides of the breast blackish brown; 

 throat white ; remainder of lower plumage white tinged with buff. 



