184 MUSCICAPID/E. 



The young are spotted with fulvous white above, and the margins of the 

 wing feathers are broadly fulvous. Upper mandible of bill dark brown, 

 lower mandible yellowish, iris brown, legs brownish black. 



Length. $'$ to 4-6 inches ; wing 2.75 to 2'S; tail 175 to 2'O; tarsus 0-5 ; 

 bill from gape 0*55. 



Hab. N. W. Provinces, Oudh, and probably Bengal. It is found through- 

 out the Himalayas, common about Darjeeling, from 6,000 feet upwards, to 

 Nepaul ; spread over the whole of British Burmah as a winter visitant. Gates, 

 records it from the Pegu Hills near the frontier, and Dr. Armstrong got it at 

 Elephant Point, but found it rare. Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay mentions his 

 getting a young bird on the Tounghoo Hill in December. According to 

 Davison, it is everywhere scarce in Tenasserim. Found also in the Malay 

 Peninsula, and extends to China and Eastern Siberia. 



The Sooty Fly-Catcher breeds in the Himalayas, making a nest of moss 

 against the side of a tree trunk, or on the broken end of a branch, laying three 

 eggs, which are dull green marked with reddish brown. They are long ovals, 

 a good deal pointed and compressed at the smaller end; size 0*65, x 046, 

 Jerdon says it is sedentary in its habits, darting on insects from a fixed perch 

 on a low branch, and that he never saw it descend to the ground to feed, 



206. Hemichelidon ferruginea, Hodgs., p. z. S, 1845, p. 32; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 207; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 122. Butalis 

 ferruginea, El. B. Burm. p. 104 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 121. Alseonax 

 ferruginea, Jerd* B. Jnd. \. p. 460, No. 299; Hume and Dav., Str., F. vi, 

 p. 277; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p. 175; Gates, Str, F. x. p. 204; Oates 

 B. Br. Burm. I p. 276, The FERRUGINOUS FLY-CATCHER. 



Forehead and crown of head dark brown; orbital feathers pale buff; lores 

 and ear coverts rufescent brown ; back, scapulars, lesser wing coverts, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, rusty or reddish brown, becoming deeper (chestnut) on 

 the latter and on the rump ; median and greater coverts brown, edged and 

 tipped with chestnut ; quills dark brown, the later secondaries and tertiaries 

 edged with rusty brown ; under surface of quills buffy ; tail reddish brown ; 

 lower throat with a patch of white, the rest of the under surface chestnut ; the 

 throat rufescent brown ; bill dusky, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; legs 

 pale fleshy ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5 inches; wing 275 ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus O'5 ; bill from gape 0*65. 



Hab. The Carnatic, N, W, Provinces, British Burmah, Nepaul, Sikkim, and 

 Ceylon. The ferruginous flycatcher is a rare visitant to the plains of India. 

 Jerdon says he did not hear of its occurrence away from the Himalayas. It 

 is common in the neighbourhood of Darjeeling, from 4,000 to 8,000 feet. In 

 Burmah it is a winter visitor. It is recorded from Bankasoon in Tenasserim ; 

 Oates procured specimens near Pegu, and Captain Bingham secured a speci- 

 men in the Thoungyeen Valley. It extends southwards through the Malay 



