158 MYIAGRIN 2. 
Bill pale-bluish, dusky at tip; irides dark brown; legs 
slaty. 
Lores black ; general hue cinereous, or ashy-grey, purest on 
the head, and with a tinge of rufous on the back and scapulars ; 
breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, and under tail-coverts, ashy- 
white, with a tinge of rufous on the belly ; quills and tail black- 
ish ashy-grey, the latter tipped narrowly with pale ashy ; upper 
tail-coverts white beneath, showing a white border next the dark 
tail. 
This is another bird that within our limits has only been 
obtained by Mr. Vidal. He remarks: “Has been found in the 
cocoanut gardens round Vingorla.” 
Famity, Muscicapide. 
Bill rather wide, depressed, shallow; the culmen straight, 
distinctly hooked and notched at the tip ; rictal bristles (typically) 
numerous and strong; wings moderate ; tail generally rather 
short or moderate ; tarsus short, weak ; feet moderately small, 
feeble. 
SuB-FAMILy, Myiagrine, Bonap. 
Bill broad at base, much depressed, straight, considerably 
hooked at the tip, and notched ; rictal bristles numerous and long ; 
wings rather lengthened ; tail moderate or somewhat long, in 
one genus with the central tail-feathers greatly elongated in 
the male sex ; feet and legs short and feeble. 
Genus, Muscipeta, Cuv. 
Bill lengthened, wide, depressed at base, tolerably stout 
and deep, narrowing suddenly at the tip, which is moder- 
ately hooked and notched; the ridge of the culmen raised ; 
nostrils somewhat in front, protected by a few stout nareal bristles, 
and plumed at their base; gape wide; rictal bristles numerous, 
long, and stout; wings rather long, somewhat pointed ; the first 
four quills unequally graduated, fourth and fifth sub-equal and 
longest ; tail rather long, cuneate, with the two central feathers 
greatly elongated in the male; feet and legs short and feeble; 
head crested. 
Muscipeta paradisi, Zin. 
288.—Tchitrea paradisi, Lin—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 
445 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 466; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 395; TYersiphoni paradisi, Lin. ; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 127; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1835, p. 66. 
THE PARADISE FLY-CATCHER. 
Dood-raj and Shah Bulbul, Hin. The white bird. 
Sultana Bulbul, Hin. The red bird. 
