162 MUSCICAPIN. 
whole bresst, black, the middle of the latter marked with oval 
white spots. 
The White-spotted Fantail Fly-catcher is found in various 
parts of the Deccan; it is also common at Mount Aboo; it is a 
permanent resident, and breeds during March and April. The 
nest is placed in a fork of some low thick bush, generally a 
cowranda bush, and is a neat, well-made cup, composed of grass 
stems, and coated on the exterior with cobwebs ; the sides are 
nowhere more than a quarter of an inch in thickness, but the 
bottom is often continued to a point. The eggs, three in 
number, are broad ovals in shape, of a buffy-white color, with a 
zone of lavender and brownish spots towards the larger end. 
They measure 0°67 inches in length by about 0°52 in breadth. 
Genvs, Culicicapa. 
Bill shert, broad, suddenly compressed at tip, and much deflect- 
ed, barely notched; nareal bristles long and strong ; rictal bristles 
a little shorter ; wings, with the first quill shorter, and the third 
longer, the fourth and fifth very little longer ; tail moderate, almost 
even ; tarsus short ; feet very feeble. 
Culicicapa ceylonensis, Swains. 
295.—Cryptolopha cinereocapilla, Vieill—Jerdon’s Birds _ of 
India, Vol. I, p. 455; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 396; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 
. 66. 
THE GREY-HEADED F'LY-CATCHER. 
Length, 4°5 to 4°75 ; wing, 2-4; tail, 2:12; tarsus, 0°5. 
Bill blackish above, horny-reddish beneath ; irides deep-brown ; 
feet dingy-red. 
Above, the head, nape, and ear-coverts, dark-ashy; back, 
wings, and tail light-yellow green; quills and tail-feathers dusky 
internally ; rump and upper tail-coverts tinged yellow; beneath, 
the chin, throat, neck, and breast, pale-ashy; the rest of the 
lower plumage dingy-yellow, greenish on the flanks. 
The Grey-headed Fly-catcher is a not uncommon cold weather 
visitant to Satara, and has been recorded from the Ahmednagar 
district. It is fairly common in Central India, but does not occur 
elsewhere within our limits. 
SUB-FAMILY, Muscicapine. 
Bill depressed, moderately wide, slightly hooked and notched 
at the tip ; rictal bristles moderate ; wings moderate ; tarsus short 
or slightly lengthened, moderately strong ; feet small or moderate. 
chiefly of small size. 
Genus, Alseonax. 
Bill much depressed and very shallow, wide at the base, slender 
and suddenly narrowed at the tip, and faintly hooked and 
