APPENDIX. 



Synopsis of Species, apparently new, alluded and referral to 



in this Volume, 



1. Muscicapa ruficauda. 



Grey-brown above ; cinereous-white beneath ; eyes encircled 

 with a white ring ; tail rounded, fulvous-brown. 



Inhabits India. Total length, 6 inches; bill, 

 gape, ^ ; front, J ; wings, 2| ; tail beyond, I \ ; 

 base, 2 ; tarsus hardly fa The colouring of this 

 specimen is obscure and somewhat peculiar, so as 

 to excite the suspicion of its being a young bird, or 

 female ; but its general structure does not agree 

 with any other we have hitherto seen. The head 

 is cinereous grey, brighter on the sides, and gradu- 

 ating from the neck into a fulvous-brown, which 

 deepens, again, into ferrugineous on the tail ; the 

 wings are like the back; the fore parts of the 

 throat and breast are pale cinereous, which be- 

 comes white on the middle of the belly ; under 

 tail-covers pale fulvous ; the tail is slightly rounded; 



