Birds of Luchiow. 549 



jSTo. 575. Cyornis kubeculoides. Blue-throated Fly- 

 catcher. 



Reid recorded this bird as '' only a cold-weatlier visitor, 

 numerically rare and seldom seen, except perhaps in the 

 guava-groves and gardens about Lucknow. In the District 

 it is occasionally met with in mango-topes, frequenting low 

 branches, or often small shoots projecting from the trunks 

 of the trees, from which it sallies forth after insects, rarely 

 returning to the same perch, and seldom to the same tree." 



I have only seen the bird once, and that was in my 

 garden at La Martiniere College. 



No. 576. Cyornis tickelli. TickelVs Blue Flycatcher. 



According to Reid, this species is commoner than the 

 last, I have no note of having seen it, and my impression 

 is that both species are of rare occurrence in Luckuow. 



No. 579. Stoparola melanops. Verditer Flycatcher. 



Only a cold-weather visitant, of course, and never, I think, 

 very abundant. Reid gives the better wooded parts of the 

 Division, the Horticultural Gardens, and the Wingfield 

 Park — where, if I remember right, I have seen it on one or 

 two occasions — as the localities it chiefly affects. 



No. 588. Alseonax latirostris. Brown Flycatcher. 



I have no note of having actually come across this bird. 

 Reid has recorded it as occurring during the " rains," but 

 he had " no record or recollection of having seen it at other 

 seasons/^ 



No. 592. Culicicapa ceylonensis. Grey-headed Fly- 

 catcher. 



This Flycatcher visits the Division in large numbers 

 during the cold weather. It shews great partiality for 

 mango-topes. 



No, 598. Terpsiphone paradisi. Indian Paradise Fly- 

 catcher. 



Shah-Bulbul [H.]. Rock-Bulbul [Anglo-Indian boys] . 



A permanent resident, generally spread over the wooded 

 portions of the Division, but far from numerically abundant. 



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