214 MUSClCAPIOffi. 



even to their outskirts. It has always been met with in pairs. It has a harsh, 

 grating, metallic-sounding note. Mr. Hume in vol. ix., p. 113, describes an 

 allied species from the Malayan Peninsula as P. intermedium* 



241. Philentoma pyrrhopterum (Tem.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br, 



Mus. iv. p. 366 j Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 449; Salvad, Ucc. Born. i. p. 138 ; Hume 

 and Dav-, vi. p. 223 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 92 j Oates, B. Br. Burm. 

 i. p. 264. Philentoma castaneum, Eyton, Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. i. xvi. p. 220 5 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p, 19, The CHESTNUT-WINGED FLY-CATCHER. 



Male. Whole head and neck, the breast, back, and lesser wing coverts 

 bluish grey or indigo blue, less deep on the forehead and over the eye ; lower 

 back and rump rufescent grey ; upper tail coverts, tail, some of the outer 

 webs of the scapulars, the tertiaries and most of the outer webs of the secon- 

 daries bright chestnut ; remainder of the quills dark brown ; the outer webs 

 of the primaries margined with greyish blue, in some with a reddish tinge; 

 primary coverts blue centred with blackish; greater wing coverts chestnut; 

 lower plumage pale buff, becoming paler on the vent and under tail coverts ; 

 bill black ; irides crimson. 



Length. 6*8 to 7-5 ; wing 3-12 to 3-87 ; tail 275 to 3-3 ; tarsus 075. 



The female has the forehead, crown, nape and sides of the head dull bluish 

 or greenish grey ; the back, scapulars, lesser and median wing coverts, rump 

 and upper tail coverts dull earthy brown ; chin, throat and breast fulvous 

 white, more distinctly buffy at the base of the throat ; rest of under surface 

 sordid white, with more or less of a creamy tinge, washed with fulvescent ; 

 wings and tail as in the male ; edge of the wing and coverts immediately 

 under it blue ; wing lining pale pinkish buff ; legs dark greenish black ; 

 irides crimson. 



Length. 675 to 7*9; wing 3*8 to 3*12 j tail 2 '62 to 3 ; tarsus 0*65 to 7? 

 culmen 072 to 0*95. 



Hab. The Chestnut-winged Fly- Catcher occurs in the extreme south of 

 Tenasserim, where it was observed by Davison in the evergreen forests about 

 Bankasoon and Malewoon. It extends down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, 

 Malacca, and Borneo, and Dr. Tiraud records it from Cochin-China. Davison 

 says its habits are similar to those of P. velatum. 



Gen. Clllicicapa. Swinkoe. 



Head subcrested ; bill moderately broad, flattened, outline bowed in 

 towards the tip ; nareal bristles long and strong ; rictal bristles slightly shorter j 

 wing rather pointed ; 1st quill shorter than the second ; 4th and 5th very little 

 longer than the third ; tarsus short, feeble ; tail nearly even, 



242. CullCicapa Ceylonensis, Swainson, Zool. III. Ser. i. pi. xiii. ? 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 369; Oates, B. Br. Burm., i. p. 274 9 

 Hume, Str, F. viii. p. 92 ; Scully, Str. F, viii. p. 275 j Legge, B. Ceylon, 



