6 MUSCICAPID^. 



tail plain brown ; a ring of white feathers round the eye ; lores 

 mixed white and hrown ; sides of the head brown ; chin, throat, 

 breast, and sides of the body smoky brown, dashed with grey 

 in places ; an indistinct white patch on the lower throat ; abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts white, the last mixed with brown. 

 After the autumn moult, the margins to the wing-feathers are 

 broader and more rufous. 



The young have the crown and nape streaked with fulvous 

 white and the upper plumage spotted and streaked with fulvous ; 

 the lesser wing-coverts are tipped, and the greater coverts and 

 quills margined broadly, with fulvous ; the lower plumage is much 

 whiter than in the adult. 



Upper mandible dark brown, lower yellowish ; iris brown ; legs 

 brownish black. 



Length about 4-5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus '5 ; bill from 

 gape *55. 



Distribution. A permanent resident in the Himalayas, from 

 Afghanistan and Kashmir to Sikhim, occurring as high as 

 33,000 feet in the summer. In the winter this species is found 

 along the lower ranges of those mountains, and it has been 

 observed at Shillong, Manipur, and generally throughout Pegu and 

 Tenasserim, extending into the Malay peninsula. It is widely 

 spread over China and Eastern Siberia in summer. This Flycatcher 

 appears to be entirely absent from the plains of India. 



Halnts, fyc. Breeds in Kashmir in June. A nest found by 

 Major Cock was placed against the side of a tree-trunk. The 

 eggs are pale green mottled with pale reddish, and measure about 

 65 by -46. 



559. Hemichelidon ferruginea. The Ferruginom Flycatcher. 



Hemichelidon ferruginea, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 32 ; Blyth, Cat. 



p. 175; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 137; Hume, N. $ E. p. 207; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 122: Gates. B. B. i, p. 276; id. in 



Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 2. 

 Alseonax ferrugineus (Hodgs.), Jerd. B. I. i, p. 460 ; Hume. Cat. 



no. 299; id. S. F. xi, p. 106. 



Dang-chim-pa-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Forehead and crown of head dark brown; back, 

 scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts reddish 

 brown, changing to chestnut on the latter two parts ; median and 

 greater coverts brown, edged and tipped with chestnut; quills 

 dark brown, the later secondaries and tertiaries edged with reddish 

 brown ; tail reddish brown ; a distinct ring of feathers round the 

 eye whitish or pale buff; lores and ear-coverts mixed rufous and 

 brown ; lower plumage pale rufous, deepening to chestnut on the 

 abdomen, under tail-coverts, and flanks, the breast infuscated, the 

 lower part of the throat whitish, and the sides of the throat mottled 

 with brown. 



The young have the forehead, crown, and nape black, boldly 



