ALSEONAX. 185 



Peninsula, and is found in Cochin-China. It frequents, according to Jerdon, 

 dark, open forests without underwood, and pursues insects from a low branch, 

 or the stump of a fallen tree. 



It breeds in the Himalayas. The structure of the nest, as well as the 

 number, size, and shape of the eggs, is the same as in the preceding species 

 colour a sort of buff, minutely and feebly freckled with brownish red ; size 

 0*64 X 0-5. 



Gen. AlseonaX. Calam's. 



Bill more lengthened than in Hcmichelidon, less swallow like, being narrower 

 in front and deeper vertically; 3rd and 4th quills subequal. 



207. AlseonaX latirOStris, Raffles, Trans. Lin. Soc. xiii. p. 312; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 459, No. 297 ; Hume and Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 185, 

 pi. v. ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 219 ; Brooks, Sir. F. iii. p. 276, iv. p. 273, v. 

 p. 470; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 127; Scully, Str.F. viii. p. 2"6 ; 

 Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 415; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 92; Brooks, Str. F. ix. 

 p. 225. Butalis terricolor, Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 120. Muscicapa cinereo- 

 alba, Tern, and Schlcg. Faun. Jap-Aves, p. 42. pi. 15. Alseonax terricolor, 

 Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 46o, No. 298 ; Brooks, Str. F. iii. p. 234. Butalis latiros- 

 tris, Bl. B. Burm. p. 104 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 277. The BROWN 

 FLY-CATCHER. 



Above greyish brown or dark brown, the feathers of the crown centred 

 darker ; lores and orbital ring white. Scapulars, tertiaries, and secondaries 

 dark brown : wing coverts the same ; all but the primaries edged with rusty ; 

 tail dark brown, the outermost feathers narrowly tipped with whitish ; under 

 surface of body white, tinged with pale ashy on the breast, flanks, and sides 

 of the throat. 



Immature birds have broad fulvous margins to all the feathers of the upper 

 plumage. Bill, legs and claws black ; base of lower mandible yellow ; in 

 the immature, except the tip, which is dusky, the whole lower mandible is 

 yellow. 



Length. 5 to 5'2 inches ; wing 275 to 2*85 ; tail 2-5 to 2-85 ; tarsus 0-5 ; 

 bill from gape 0*7. 



Hab.N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Central India, the Concan, Deccan, South 

 India, Malabar Coast, Ceylon, British Burmah, and Nepaul. Extends to 

 Cochin-China. 



The Brown Fly-Catcher is a winter visitor to Burmah. It is said to be a 

 resident of Southern India and Ceylon, but nothing appears to be known of 

 its nidification. Gates says that in Pegu some birds would appear to stay all 

 the year round, or to nest close by, having shot both adult and young in July. 

 It is abundant, according to him, in the southern half of Pegu. Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay got it at Tounghoo. Mr. Blyth received it from Arrakan, and Davison 

 says he observed it in the southern half of Tenasserim. It extends down the 



