Vil MUSCICAPIDAE 507 
above the eye, of scarlet, blue, or yellow, are found in Zerpsi- 
phone, Zeocephus, Diaphorophyia, Platystira, and Arses. The bill 
is sometimes reddish or blue, and the inside of the mouth green 
or yellow, as in certain Birds of Paradise. 
The males of our summer visitors, the Spotted and Pied Fly- 
catchers, Musciceapa grisola and M. atricapilla, are respectively 
brown with whitish under parts streaked with dusky, and black 
and white; the hen-bird being similar in the former case, but in the 
latter olive-brown, with the frontlet, wing-patches, and lower surface 
buff instead of white. JZ (Erythrosterna) parva, which is brown 
with grey head, and has a reddish-orange fore-neck that becomes 
rufous in the female, occurs accidentally in Britain.  Platystira is 
glossy bluish- or greenish-black above with white markings, and 
white beneath with a black pectoral band, the female having 
ereyer upper parts, and sometimes a maroon chest; Lrythromyias 
is black and white, with an orange-rufous breast or back ; Pseudo- 
gerygone is olive-green, brown, or grey above—dark crimson in LP. 
rubra—with an admixture of black, buff, rufous, yellow, or white, 
and has similar or yellow tints below; Chasiempis is brownish, 
relieved by black, white, and bay; Culicicapa is greenish-yellow 
with a bright yellow lower surface, the head being grey in one 
species. The hen-bird in these four genera, where known, resembles 
the male. That sex of Ni/tava is blackish or purplish, varied with 
rich cobalt, especially on the neck, the under parts being orange- 
rufous or purplish-grey; the female is chiefly olive, often with 
a blue or lilac neck-patch. Malurus commonly shews a fine 
mixture of blue, purple, and velvety-black, with a little brown 
and white ; one of its members is chiefly brown, but has a blue tail, 
and a lilac crown with black centre; a second is vermilion, black 
and brown above, and black below; a third has crimson in the 
place of vermilion ; a fourth is bluish-black and white. The hen- 
birds are mainly brown, often with a blue, or even a green, tail. 
Piezorhynchus has two metallic black species, while P. chryso- 
melas is orange-yellow and black ; Metabolus is almost white, with 
black face and throat; and lastly, Terpsiphone (or Tehitrea), well 
known on Chinese and Japanese screens and fans, contains several 
long-tailed and finely crested white birds, with glossy greenish- 
black head and throat, and with black markings on the wings and 
tail in 7. paradisi, the Paradise-Flycatcher. The female is rich 
bay above, with similar head, but grey cheeks and throat. In 
