372 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



darker blue above, with the lower parts bright ferruginous, 

 except just the middle of the belly and the lower tail-coverts, 

 which are pure white. 



309. Cyornis pallipes. 



Mr. Wallace has a nearly allied C. ruffrons from Borneo. ' 



311. MUSCICAPULA jESTIGMA. 



In one of Mr. Hodgson^s drawings in the British Museum 

 are beautifully represented, together and contrastingly, four 

 nearly allied species, viz. M. superciliuris [Muscicapa hemileucura, 

 Hodgson), M. cestigma, M. ciliaris, and M. leucuschista. The 

 two latter have to be added to Dr. Jerdon^s list; and the second 

 he regarded as dubious in his Appendix (p. 876) . M. astigma is 

 plain blue above, white below, with no white on the tail : one figure 

 in another drawing has a white superciliary line, which the other 

 has not; so that there may yet be a second species here. M. leu- 

 coschista is like M. superciliaris ; but the white on the throat is 

 much broader, there is less of blue on the sides of the breast, 

 and no white on the tail-feathers. M. ciliaris is of a darker 

 and duller blue above, with white superciliaries commencing from 

 nostrils, the greater coverts and outer webs of tertiaries white, 

 as are also the entire under parts. 



315. NiLTAVA MACGRIGORI^. 



Nest figured by Mr. Hodgson in a slight hollow of a tree, 

 with pinkish-white eggs. 



321. SiPHiA SUPERCILIARIS (Blyth) ; S Muscicapa tricolor 

 and $ M. rupestris, Miiller. {Cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 44.) 



Specimens in the Derby Museum of Liverpool. The female 

 is ashy above, beneath rufous, paler on the breast and vent ; 

 superciliaries pale rufous; wing and tail-feathers pale brown, 

 slightly washed on the outer webs with light rufous. One tail- 

 feather (a new one), in the Timor specimen, bluish as in the 

 male. Mr. Wallace has a Siphia rufigula from Northern Celebes. 



323. Erythrosterna leucura. 



Probably Muscicapa rufogularis, Brehm, as distinguished from 

 his M. parva. The true E. parva (Bechstein ; Saxicula rubecu- 

 loides, Sykes) I have seen from the Deyra Doon and from the 

 Dukliua, and must therefore be added to the Indian list. 



