194 MUSCICAPID^E. 



&Y., Sind, p. 145. Motacilla caprata, (Linn) S. Nat. i. p. 325. CEnanthe 

 caprata, Viell. N. Diet. xxi. p. 433. Saxicola bicolor, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, 

 p. 92. Pratincola atrata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 177; Jerd. B. 2nd. ii. 

 p. 124, No. 482. Pratincola bicolor, Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 314. 

 The WHITE- WINGED BLACK ROBIN. 



Adult Male. Head, neck all round, throat, breast, sides of the face, back, 

 wings, tail and entire under surface black ; under wing coverts black ; vent, 

 under tail coverts, rump, upper tail coverts and wing patch white ; some of 

 the feathers of the lower abdomen very slightly edged with white. The 

 young male is dark brown, the feathers of the upper and lower surface with 

 brownish edgings ; the quills dark brown with whitish tips, and the lower 

 abdomen, vent and upper tail coverts, as well as the wing patch, white. The 

 female is dusky brown, the feathers edged pale, and with dark centres to the 

 feathers of the head, scapulars and back ; rump and upper tail coverts 

 rufescent ; tail dark brown, as also are the wing coverts and quills, but mar- 

 gined with lighter brown ; beneath pale reddish or ochraceous brown, whitish 

 on the throat ; vent and under tail coverts white, with a slight rufous tinge ; 

 bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5 to 5*4 inches ; wing 2*75 ; tail 2*1 ; tarsus 0*8; bill at front O - 45. 



Hab. India generally, Ceylon, Southern India, Burmah, Java, and 

 Philippines. In the Indian region it extends to the Himalayas, and is ex- 

 tremely common throughout Sind, the Punjab, Beloochistan, S. E. Persia and 

 S. Afghanistan, at Chaman, Gulistan, Dubrai and Kandahar ; also occurs all 

 along the Western Coast, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, North Guzerat, the 

 Deccan and Concan. Breeds in Sind and the plains generally during March 

 and April. Eggs usually three, pale greenish white, speckled finely with 

 brown. 



Gen. Poliomyias. Sharpe. 



Bill rather broad, with well defined culmen, broader at the nostrils than it 

 is high ; shorter than in Pratincola and not exceeding the inner toe and claw. 

 General aspect and style of plumage of Musctcapa, but with long wings. 



218. Poliomyias HodgSOni, ( Verr.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. 

 p. 203; Gates, B. Br. Burmah, i. p. 286. Siphia Hodgsoni, Verr. N. Arch. 

 Mus. vi. Bull, p. 34, vii. p. 29 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 115. Siphia 

 erythaca, Jerd. and Bl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 201 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 480, No. 322 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 456 ; Wald in Bl. B. Burm. p. 103 ; Hume, Sir. F. vi. 

 p. 137 ; Hume and Dav. Str. F. vi. p'. 233; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 93. The 

 RUSTY-BREASTED FLY-CATCHER. 



Male. Above dull cyaneous, also the ear coverts ; lores, feathers under the 

 eye, the cheeks and upper tail coverts black ; wing coverts brown, edged with 



