1 26 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



310. MUSCICAPULA SUPERCILIARIS. 



Above dull Prussian blue, aud not full as printed. The lores 

 are bluish black. Stoliczka remarks that the white feathers of 

 the lower surface are slaty at their base on the breast and abdo- 

 men. 



Erooks says that the female is pale brown above, paler below. 

 One that I procured at Darjeeling (but not in the flesh) had the 

 head and upper part of back olive-brown, changing to pale blue 

 on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; lores pale ; 

 chin and throat fulvous, the rest of the lower parts white, oliva-- 

 ceous ashy on the sides of the breast and flanks. This I at the 

 time considered to be the female; and Stoliczka gives the same 

 account, and says, moreover, that the old female has some blue 

 on the head as well. This last naturalist obtained it as high as 

 12,000 feet on the Himalayas. I have killed it nearly as high. 

 As to its extension through the plains in the cold season, my 

 type specimen was procured very much further south than either 

 Mr. Hume^s or Mr. Blanford's specimens. This bird is most 

 undoubtedly the M. hemileucura of Hodgson, but not the bird 

 figured under that name in Jardine^s Contributions to Ornitho- 

 logy, which is Siphia leucomelanura of Hodgson. See infr^, p. 128. 



311. MUSCICAPULA ASTIGMA*. 



I have lately procured what is undoubtedly this species on the 

 highest of the Khasia hills, Shillong Peak. 



The male is prussian blue above, and on the sides of the neck 

 and breast ; chin, middle of throat and breast, and all abdominal 

 region pure white. 



The female is olivaceous above, slightly rufescent on the fore- 

 head, lores, and round the eye ; the sides of the neck and breast 

 and flanks ashy; the rest of the lower parts white, somewhat 

 more sullied than in the male bird. Bill black ; irides deep 

 brown; legs reddish brown. 



Length c? M inches, wing 2|, extent 7|, tail nearly 2, tars. 4« 



I found this species in pairs in June at the edge of the wood on 

 Shillong Peak, and saw several couples in different parts of the 

 wood. 



* Not cBstigma as hitherto given. 



