158 MYI AGEING. 



Bill pale-bluish, dusky at tip ; irides dark brown ; legs 

 slaty. 



Lores black ; general hue cinereous, or ashy-grey, purest on 

 the head, and with a tinge of rufous on the back and scapulars ; 

 breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, and under tail-coverts, ashy- 

 white, with a tinge of rufous on the belly ; quills and tail black- 

 ish ashy-grey, the latter tipped narrowly with pale ashy ; upper 

 tail-coverts white beneath, showing a white border next the dark 

 tail. 



This is another bird that within our limits has only been 

 obtained by Mr. Vidal. He remarks : " Has been found in the 

 cocoanut gardens round Yingorla." 



FAMILY, Muscicapidae. 



Bill rather wide, depressed, shallow ; the culmen straight, 

 distinctly hooked and notched at the tip ; rictal bristles (typically) 

 numerous and strong ; wings moderate ; tail generally rather 

 short or moderate ; tarsus short, weak ; feet moderately small, 

 feeble. 



SUB-FAMILY, Myiagrinae, Bonap. 



Bill broad at base, much depressed, straight, considerably 

 hooked at the tip, and notched ; rictal bristles numerous and long ; 

 wings rather lengthened ; tail moderate or somewhat long, in 

 one genus with the central tail-feathers greatly elongated in 

 the male sex ; feet and legs short and feeble. 



GENUS, Muscipeta, Cuv. 



Bill lengthened, wide, depressed at base, tolerably stout 

 and deep, narrowing suddenly at the tip, which is moder- 

 ately hooked and notched ; the ridge of the culmen raised ; 

 nostrils somewhat in front, protected by a few stout nareal bristles, 

 and plumed at their base ; gape wide ; rictal bristles numerous, 

 long, and stout ; wings rather long, somewhat pointed ; the first 

 four quills unequally graduated, fourth and fifth sub-equal and 

 longest ; tail rather long, cuneate, with the two central feathers 

 greatly elongated in the male ; feet and legs short and feeble ; 

 head crested. 



Muscipeta paradisi, Lin. 



5288. Tchitrea paradisi, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 

 445 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 466 ; Deccan, 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 395 ; Tersiphoni paradisi, Lin. ; 

 Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 127 ; Swinhoe and 

 Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1835, p. 66. 



THE PARADISE FLY-CATCHER. 

 Dood-raj and Shah Bulbul, Hin. The white 

 Sultana Bulbul, Hin. The red bird. 



