188 MUSCICAPID/E. 



211. Muscicapa albicilla, Pall. Zoogr. JRosso-Asiat. i. p. 462, 

 Aves, tab. i. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 162 ; Oates, B. Burm. i. 

 p. 278. Erythrosterna leucura, (Gm.) Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 481, No. 323 ; Bl. B. 

 Btirm., p. 103. Erythrosterna albicilla, (Pall.} Anders. Yunnan Expedition, 

 p. 621 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 233 ; David et Oust. Ois Chine, p. 120; 

 Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 280 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 93. The WHITE-TAILED 

 ROBIN FLY-CATCHER. 



Male in summer plumage. Upper plumage and wings olive brown, the 

 latter margined paler ; upper tail coverts black ; tail black, the four outer 

 pairs of feathers white for about two-thirds of their length from the base ; 

 lores mixed ashy and white ; chin and throat orange ; ear coverts, cheeks and 

 a band passing round the orange of the throat pure ashy, extending on to the 

 upper breast in some ; rest of lower plumage ashy white. 



In winter the male loses the orange on the chin and throat, and the plumage 

 on the under surface of the body is tinged with buff ; orbital ring white. 



The female is like the male in summer ; bill dark brown, yellowish at the 

 gape ; iris hazel brown ; legs black. 



Length. 5 to 5'i inches; wing 2*75; tail 2*0 to 2'i; tarsus 0*65; bill 

 from gape o'6. 



Hab. N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, also the Concan, and, perhaps, the 

 Deccan, as well as British Burmah and Nepaul. Jerdon says it is found 

 " throughout the whole of India." This statement is certainly incorrect. It is 

 not known from South India, though it occurs in Ceylon. In Northern and 

 Central India it is not uncommon, but everywhere, even in British Burmah, as a 

 winter visitant. According to Gates it is common in Pegu, and spread over 

 the whole division from November to March. It is recorded from Arrakan, 

 and Mr. Shopland got specimens at Akyab. At Tounghoo Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay obtained specimens. It is spread over the whole of Tenasserim. It 

 is said to summer in Eastern Siberia and North China. 



The White-tailed Robin Fly-Catcher affects gardens, orchards, groves and 

 low jungle chiefly. It appears to be strictly arboreal, playing about on the 

 branches of trees searching for insects, and never descending to the ground. 



212. Muscicapa hyperythra, Cab.Joum. F. Omitii. 1866, p. 391 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 163. Erythrosterna hyperythra (Cab.) 

 Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 376. The WHITE-TAILED ROBIN OR RUFOUS-BREASTED 

 FLY-CATCHER. 



The upper surface is brownish grey, turning to a purer grey on the rump 

 and upper tail coverts ; tail black, with the basal halves of the lateral rectrices 

 white, the upper tail coverts, especially the longest, are blackish in parts, espe- 

 cially on the outer webs. The lower surface is a bright red-brown or rusty-red, 



