200 CRYPTOLOPHA. 



in the Linn. Society's Museum, sent from India, 

 having a similar concealed crest to our Lepturus 

 ruficeps. And even in the Cryp. poiocephala, 

 which we shall now describe, the crown, although 

 of a uniform colour, nevertheless sanctions the 

 name of Cryptolopha, which we now apply to this 

 division. 



GREY-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 



Cryptolopha poiocephala, SWAINS. 

 PLATE XXIII. 



Olive-green ; body beneath fine yellow ; head, neck, throat, 

 and breast, cinereous ; eyelids white ; head sub-crested 

 striped with darker shades. 



Platyrhynchus Ceylonensis, ZooL III. i. PI. 13. 



have no doubt that this is the bird imperfectly 

 described by us nearly twenty years ago, under the 

 name of Platyrhynchus Ceylonensis, at a time, in- 

 deed, when ornithology was but in its infancy, and 

 when the geographic distribution of its groups had 

 been totally neglected. It need hardly be said that 

 the only reason of its being then placed in the genus 

 Platyrhynchus was, that its bill is broader than those 



