MUSCICAP1B*?. 



209. MuSCicapa SOrdida (Godw.- Austen), Sharpy Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. iv. p. 156. Erythrosterna sordida, Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii., 

 p. 158 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 692. The OLIVE-BROWN FLY-CATCHER. 



Above dull, olivaceous brown, ochraceous on rump and upper tail feathers ; 

 tail umber-brown, slightly tinged with ochre on outer web ; quills the same as the 

 tail and edged with olive ; the primary and secondary coverts very slightly tipped 

 pale, forming an inconspicuous bar on the wing ; lores and a distinct ring 

 round the eye dull whitish ; ear coverts and sides of face olive brown, with 

 buffy shaft streaks ; cheeks and under surface of body ashy (lutescent, Hume), 

 strongly washed with olive, the foreneck with an ochraceous tinge ; under wing 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellowish buff ; quills ashy brown below, yellowish 

 buff along the inner webs. 



Length. 4-6 inches (5-2$, Hume) ; wing 2'6 to 27 ; tail 2'2 ; tarsus 0*65. 

 (Sharpe). 



ffab. Sudiya in Upper Assam, and the Naga Hills. 



210. MllSCicapa parva, Bechst. Nat. Deutsch. iv. p. 505 ; Tern. 



Man. i. p. 158; Werner, Alias, Insectivores, pi. lo; Gray, Gen. Birds, \. 

 p. 262; Gould. B. Eur. ii. pi. 64; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 188 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 161 ; Murray, Vert. ZooL, Sind, p. 128. Erythrosterna 

 parva, Bp. Consp. List. B. Eur. and N. Amer. p. 25 ; id. Consp. i. p. 318 ; 

 Blf. East. Pers. p. 144; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, pp. 179, 377, 405; 1875, 

 p. 469 ; 1876, p. 273 ; 1877, p. 484 ; vol. v. p. 471 ; Murray, Hdbk.Zool., fyc., 

 Sind, p. 139. Muscicapa rufogularis, Brehm. Vog. Deutsch. p. 228. THE 

 RED-BREASTED FLY-CATCHER. 



Forehead, sides of face and ear coverts grey ; a circle of whitish feathers 

 round the eye ; crown of head, back, wing coverts and quills externally 

 ashy brown ; inner web of primaries dusky ; upper tail coverts and tail dark 

 brown, all, except the centre tail-feathers, white at their bases ; the external 

 web of the lateral ones on each side dusky ; chin, cheeks, and foreneck 

 orange, rest of under surface fulvous white or buffy white ; thigh coverts ashy 

 brown ; under wing coverts fulvescent, as are also the margins of the inner 

 webs of the under surface of the quills ; bill brownish ; legs dark brown. 



Length. S inches; bill at front 0*4; wing 2'6; tail 2; tarsus 0-65; 

 culinen 0*4. 



The female has the quills and wing coverts, especially the greater series, 

 edged with light brown; the chin, throat and breast deep buffy, and the 

 abdomen and vent white. 



Hab. Europe, extending into N. W. India, the Himalayas, Cashmere and 

 Nepaul. Extremely common in Beloochistan, Persia, and South Afghanistan ; 

 also in Sind, the Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Rajputana, Central India, 

 the Deccan, Concan, Kutch, and North Guzerat. A winter tisitant in Sind 

 and other parts of the Western Presidency. 



