206 MUSCICAPID^E. 



grey ; rest of plumage as in summer. The female is the same throughout the 

 year. The whole upper plumage is reddish brown, turning to chestnut on 

 the upper tail coverts; the wings and tail are brown, broadly edged with 

 chestnut brown ; the sides of the head are reddish brown, mottled with black ; 

 the chin and throat are whitish ; the remainder of the lower plumage buffy, 

 more or less pure, according to the age of the plumage. 



Length. 5*2 inches; wing 2*55 ; tail 2-45 ; tarsus 0-85 ; oilmen 0-55. 



Hab. India and the Burmese countries, ranging eastward into China. 

 (Sharpe.) According to Jerdon it is found throughout the whole extent of the 

 Himalayas, and is tolerably common about Darjeeling. It has been recorded 

 from Arrakan, from Prome in Pegu, and Tounghoo in the hills, also from 

 Karin. Davison says it is rare in the northern portions of Tenasserim. He 

 procured specimens in the pine forests of Salween, and Captain Bingham in 

 the Thoungyeen Valley. It is also recorded from the N. W. Provinces of 

 India, Oudh, Bengal, and Nepaul. 



The Grey Bush-Chat is said to affect the outskirts of forests and brushwood. 

 It has a pleasing song. Breeds throughout the Himalayas from Murree to 

 Bhootan during April and May, also June and July, two broods being rared in 

 the same nest. The nest is placed on the ground under a dense bush, or in a 

 hole in a bank ; it is cup-shaped, and is composed of grass, twigs or moss, and 

 lined with fine grass roots, horse-hair or fur. Eggs 4 to 5 in number, similar 

 to those of Pratincola maura. 



Gen. Chelidorynx- Hodgs. 



Bill short, broad, suddenly compressed at tip, much deflected and barely 

 notched ; nostrils covered by long and fine nareal bristles ; gape with long 

 rictal bristles ; wings rounded ; the 1st four quills graduated ; tail long, round- 

 ed, firm ; tarsus rather short; feet feeble; lateral toes slightly unequal. (Jerd.). 



233. Chelidorynx hypoxantha, Eiytk, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 935 ; 



Hodgs., Drawing, No. 386 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 455, No. 294; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, p. 204 ; Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 132 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 93 ; 

 Scully, Sir. F. viii. p. 275 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 279 ; Oates, B. 

 Br, Burm. i. p. 269. The YELLOW-BELLIED FANTAIL. 



Forehead, a broad supercilium, and the whole lower plumage bright yellow; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks and ear coverts dark brown, tinged with 

 green, the shafts of the latter whitish; tail brown with conspicuous white 

 shafts, and all the feathers, except the central ones, tipped with white ; upper 

 plumage and wing coverts olive brown ; wings brown, narrowly margined with 

 olive brown ; bill black above, the lower mandible yellow ; irides brown ; 

 gape orange ; feet brownish reddish. (Jerd.) 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, Khasia Hills, and Burmah. 



