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



found it more abundant than in high valleys in Kashmir, where, 

 like Stoliczka, I saw it chiefly near the tops of high trees, not 

 on the lower branches as I occasionally observed near Darjeeling. 

 Hodgson figured the egg as pale greenish with rufous specks. 

 The birds obtained near Barrackpore by Tytler, alluded to by 

 Blyth in his Commentary, were more probably, I think, Alseonax 

 terricolor. I see that Swinhoe, in his last Catalogue of the 

 Birds of China, puts Hodgson's bird as a synonym of Muscicapu 

 sibirica, Gmelin, and M.fuscedula, Pallas, as suggested by myself. 



297. Alseonax latirostris. 



Blanford notices that he cannot see the smallest difference 

 Detween specimens of this bird and one sent from Amoy by 

 Swinhoe as Muscicapa cinereo-alba, Temm. & Schl. ; and I see 

 that Swinhoe now adopts this view. I had previously considered 

 it to be more like Alseonax terricolor. 



299. Alseqnax ferrugineus. 



Hemichelidon rufilata, Swinhoe. 



The nest and eggs of this Flycatcher are depicted in one of 

 Hodgson's drawings, the eggs pure buff colour, unspotted. 



Butulis griseo-stida, Swinhoe [B. hijpogrammicay Gray and 

 Wallace) is another species of this group, spreading from China 

 in summer to the Moluccas in winter. 



301. EUMYIAS MELANOl'S, 



Expanse of wing about 10 inches. Hodgson figures the egg 

 as unspotted pinkish white ; Captain Bulger describes the eggs as 

 pale greenish blue, much spotted and blotched with brown ; and 

 Mr. Brooks as fleshy white, clouded and mottled with pale reddish 

 brown at the large end, which is very like my account of them. 

 Lord Walden has recently described a nearly allied bird from 

 Ceylon as £. sordida (perhaps ceijlonensis^, Gray) ; and Gray has 

 given the name of E. sjnlonota* to what is most probably the 

 young bird from the Himalayas. 



303. CyORNIS UNICOLORt. 



I obtained a single specimen of this rare bird at Darjeeling in 



* [These names are given in the Hand-list, p. 320, to supposed new 

 species, but are unaccompanied by descriptions. — Ed.] 



t Blytb states that, both from recollection of the bird and my descrip- 



