318 Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 



295. Cryptolopha cinereocapilla. Grey-headed Fly- 

 catcher. 



The dimensions of a specimen procured by me in Maunbhoom, 

 December 16th, 1864, are given below, together with those of 

 two others killed May lOth and July 30th, 1866, at Simla, 

 where the species is apparently not uncommon. 



Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. ■'^fp^o,f[°"' Extent. 



Mauubhoom . 4-6 212o 2 -5 . . 7 



Simla 4-75 2-625 2-25 5 -375 7-25 



„ 4-75 2-.375 2-125 -4375 -375 6-75 



In the second specimen the feet are of a dull orange-yellow, 

 the irides black, with a slight white margin to the eyelid. In 

 the specimen from Maunbhoom the legs were of a dark yellow, 

 with dark greenish claws. The third specimen has the irides 

 very dark brown, the legs orange, darker above, and the upper 

 mandible dark, the lower light orange-yellow. A pair of these 

 birds accompanied a flock of some twenty Abroi'nis albosuper- 

 ciliaris into my garden, and this specimen was secured whilst 

 preening itself on a peach-ti'ee, Cr]/ptolopha darts in and out 

 between the boughs and is very quick on the wing, whilst 

 Abrornis, on the contrary, carefully examines every leaf and 

 twig, catching all the resident insects found at home, the 

 former capturing all that take to fancied security in flight ; and 

 thus both are of infinite service to the gardener. 



296. IIemichelidon fuliginosa. Sooty Flycatcher. 



The description given by Dr. Jerdon being but brief, I will 

 attempt one more full, from specimens procured at Simla, where 

 the bird is not at all uncommon. The general colour is olive- 

 brown, the feathers of the head darker in the middle, the pri- 

 maries and secondaries slightly edged with rufous, the throat, 

 breast, and flanks striated with pure white and ashy, edged with 

 rufous; the abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white; the under 

 wing-coverts and most of the inner webs of the primaries rufous ; 

 bill black above, and the tip of the lower mandible of the same 

 colour, the rest being fleshy red. The irides and legs are black. 

 I observed several on the 1st of May, 1866, at Annandale ; they 



