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and shows nearly the same black and white garb as the 

 old male, only mixed on the upper surface with a few 

 mottled feathers of the nestling dress. 



In the synonymy I follow Oates adopting the specific 

 name » melanoleuca Hodgs." (1849), an unpublished name 

 also bestowed by Temminck to the same species, as Ti- 

 ckel's older appellation •»maculata' (1833) was published 

 without a description. According to Oates » Erythrosterna 

 pusilla Bl." is only the female of this species, and Dr. 

 Sharpe gives also Muscicapa pooensis BL, Muscicapula 

 acornaus Bl. and M. leucoschistos Bl. as synonyms. Accord- 

 ing to a note by Blyth (Ibis 1866, p. 372) this last spe- 

 cies seems however a quite different bird and nearly allied 

 to Muscicapula superciliaris. 



Muscicapula melanoleuca Hodgs. 



Bl. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XII, 1849, p. 490. — 



Muscicapa maculata Tick. J. A. S. II , 1833, p. 574 

 (descr. null.J. 



Erythrosterna maculata Jerdon, B. of Ind. I (1862), 

 p. 483 (S. E. Himalaya, Darjeeling (3000—7000'), Centr. 

 India, Arakan, Tenasserim). 



Muscicapula maculata Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV (1879), 

 p. 307 (Sikkim, Darjeeling, Nepal, Sumatra). 



Cyornis melanoleuca Oates, Faun, of Br. Ind. Birds, II 

 (1890), p. 18 (Himalaya, from Nepal to Assam, Bengal, 

 Tenasserim and Karenee). 



Muscicapula maculata Sharpe, Ibis 1888, p. 385 (Borneo, 

 Kina Balu (3000—8000'): Whitehead). 



Muscicapula Westermanni Sharpe, Proc. Z. S. Lond. 

 1888, p. 270 (Perak: Wray). 



Grant, Ibis 1894, p. 506 (Highland of N. Luzon : White- 

 head); — ib. 1895, p. 422 (Provinz of Lepanto, highest part 

 of Luzon: Whitehead); — ib. 1896, p. 540 (Canloon vul- 

 cano, Central Negros: Whitehead). — Hartert, Novit. 

 Zool. Ill (1896), p. 156 (South Celebes, Bonthain Peak to 



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