CRYPTOLOPHA. 215 



p. 410. Cryptolopha cincrcocapilla, (Hut ion) J. A. S. B. xvii. p. 689; J er <1. 

 B. Ind. i. p. 455, No. 295. Myiolestes cinercocapilla (Vicill.), Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 205 ; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, pp. 404, 406; Wald, B. 



Burm. p. 132. Culicicapa cinereocapilla, Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 104. The 



GREY-HEADED FLY-CATCHER. 



Head, neck and breast ashy, darker on the crown, where the feathers are 

 dark centred ; under surface bright yellow ; the under wing coverts slightly 

 paler ; lores and edges of the eyelids whitish ; back, rump, scapulars and upper 

 tail coverts greenish yellow ; wings and their coverts dark brown ; the outer 

 webs of all the feathers, except the first two primaries, edged with bright 

 greenish yellow ; the lesser wing coverts more broadly edged with the same on 

 both webs ; tail dark brown, the outer webs of all except the outer pair edged 

 with greenish yellow ; bill brown, paler at gape ; mouth yellow ; iris dark 

 hazel ; legs yellowish brown. 



Hab. The greater portion of India and Ceylon, extending through the 

 Burmese countries down the Malay Peninsula to the islands of Java, the 

 Philippines, and Celebes. (Sharpe.) According to Jerdon the Grey-headed Fly- 

 Catcher is dispersed from the Himalayas to the Neilgherries, and spreads on 

 the other side of the Bay through Assam, into Arrakan, Burmah, and Tenas- 

 serim. In South India, on the summit of the Neilgherries, it is very -common. 

 Towards the north and in Central India it is occasionally met with, and is not 

 rare in Lower Bengal. Gates found it spread over the whole of Pegu as a 

 winter visitor, both in the hills and plains. Davison states it is generally distri- 

 buted throughout the whole of Tenasserim. Captain Bingham found it in the 

 Thoungyeen Valley, and Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay in the hills in Karin. It 

 prefers rather dense jungle in general, or shady groves and tangled thickets, is 

 tolerably active and lively, making frequent sallies after small insects. It is 

 often seen in small parties, occasionally singly or in pairs, and has a pleasant, 

 but feeble, chirping song. It breeds in the Himalayas and in the Neilgherries at 

 considerable elevations. Mutton obtained a nest at Mussoorie. It was placed 

 against the trunk of a tree. It is sometimes placed against a rock. In shape the 

 nest is like a watch-pocket, made of moss, and fixed to the moss of the tree by 

 spider's web and lined with fine fibres. It breeds during April and May. The 

 eggs, 4 in number, are dingy yellowish white, minutely spotted with pale green- 

 ish brown, or purplish grey, with a broad ring of the same near the large end ; 

 size 0*62 x o 48. 



Gen. Cryptolopha. Swains. 



Bill depressed, rather wide ; culmen moderately keeled ; rictal bristles well 

 developed ; nostrils concealed by bristles. 



243. Cryptolopha burkii, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 395. 

 Sylvia burkii, Burton, P. Z. S., 1835, p. 153. Culicepeta burkii, Myth, J. 



A. S. B. xii. p. 968 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 199, No. 569 ; Blyth and Waldcn, 



B. Burm. p. 107; Str. F. iii. p. 140. The BLACK-BROWED WARBLER. 



