132 Dr. T. C. Jerdon^s Supplementary Notes 



possession specimens from Malabar with the crest well developed, 

 and with the narrowed portion of the outer tail-feathers having 

 the shaft denuded of web. I have very little doubt that Gray^s 

 bird is the same as my E. malabariciis, and that it was probably 

 from a somewhat similar specimen to those in the British 

 Museum that Sonnerat figured his Grand Gobemouche de la 

 cote de Malabar. 



288. TCHITREA PARADISEA. 



Stoliczka states that he found this Flycatcher up to a height 

 of 9000 feet in the N.W. Himalayas, I have not seen it higher 

 than about 5000. The nest and eggs have been described by 

 Messrs. Hume and Brooks, and also by Biyth, from Hodgson^s 

 drawings. The nest is deep cup-shaped, made of fine grass and 

 moss with cobwebs outside. The eggs, usually four in number, 

 are buflfy white, with red specks and spots. 



290. Myiagra azurea. 



It is, I think, exceediugly doubtful if Beavan's M. tytleri, 

 from the Andamans, be distinct, this species having a very ex- 

 tended geographical distribution. Blyth has known a bird of 

 this species take up its residence in a veranda and prey on 

 house-flies and mosquitoes. 



291. Leucocerca fuscoventris. 



This must now stand as L. albicollis, Vieillot. Dr. Pucheran 

 having examined the types of certain species in the Paris 

 Museum, published the result in the 'Archives du Museum.^ 

 He has there determined the priority of many of Vieillot^s 

 and Cuvier's names to those given subsequently. The four 

 outermost tail-feathers ai-e broadly tipped with white, and the 

 next narrowly so. The nest and eggs are described and figured 

 in Jardine^s ' Contributions to Ornithology.' 



292. Leucocerca albofrontata. 



This is L. aureola (Vieillot). Blanford found it as far east as 

 Chanda; and Dr. King has it also in his list of birds from 

 Goona. Hume describes the nest a very delicate, small, tumbler- 

 like affair, of fine grass coated with cobwebs ; the eggs, three 



