228 MUSCICAPID/E. 



bird is brown above and below, each feather streaked with fulvous, the 

 throat patch of chestnut is absent. 



Hal. The Himalayas, from Nepaul to Sikkim, also Assam and the Naga 

 Hills, ranging into British Burmah. 



The Orange-throated Fly-Catcher is recorded from Mussoorie and Nepaul, 

 and also from Darjeeling, where Jerdon says it is very common, and may 

 often be seen on the roadside seated on a fallen tree or stone, frequently 

 alighting on the ground to pick up an insect, and occasionally making a dart in 

 the air and returning to its perch. In British Burmah it has been met with 

 in South Tenasserim on the Mooleyit Mountains. 



263. Siphia ruficauda, (Swains.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. 

 p. 457. Muscicapa ruficauda, Sws., Nat. Libr. Flyc. p. 251. Cyornis rufi- 

 cauda, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 468, No. 307; Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. 1870, 

 p. 268 ; Brooks, Sir. F., 1875, p 235 ; Fair bank, Sir. F. 1876, p. 257 ; Hume, 

 t. c. p. 396 ; Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 228 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 470. The 

 RUFOUS-TAILED FLY-CATCHER. 



Above olivaceous or ashy brown, somewhat buffy on the rump ; the upper 

 tail coverts and external edge of the tail feathers rufous, the centre tail feathers 

 and inner webs of the others ashy brown ; wing coverts and quills dusky, the 

 latter externally edged with ashy brown, the greater series with narrow pale 

 tips ; lores and a conspicuous ring round the eye whitish ; ear coverts ashy 

 brown, with narrow whitish shaft streaks ; under surface of body dull whitish, 

 ashy on the breast and flanks ; under wing and tail coverts f ulvescent ; bill 

 dusky ; irides deep brown. 



Length. 4*5 inches (5'5 Jerd.) ; wing 2'6 to 3*1; tail 2*15 ; tarsus 0/65 ; 

 culmen 0*55. 



Hab. The Indian Peninsula generally. Recorded from the Punjab and 

 N. W. Provinces, also Guzerat, the Concan, Deccan, and South India. It is 

 fairly common in the Kumaon, also Mussoorie between where and Gungotri it 

 was procured by Brooks. Jerdon obtained it in the Carnatic at Nellore and 

 the Coonoor Pass of the Neilgherries. Its habits are those of the last. 



264. Siphia mandelli, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 510; id. 1876, 



p. 396 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 453. MANDELL'S FLY-CATCHER. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, cheeks, ear coverts and nape brown ; lores, a 

 ring round the eye and a patch at the base of the lower mandible white ; upper 

 surface of body brown, tinged with rufous near the rump ; wings hair brown, 

 darker on the primaries ; the secondaries, tertiaries, greater and median wing 

 coverts margined with pale ferruginous on the outer webs ; breast, sides and 

 flanks pale brown, margined very narrowly with pale rufous buff ; under wing 



