MUSCICAPIN^E. 163r 



notched ; rictal bristles moderate ; wing longish, the third and 

 fourth quills equal and longest. 



Alseonax latirostris, Raffles. 



297, Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p, 459 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 396. 



THE SOUTHERN BROWN FLY-CATCHER. 



Length, 5'5 ; wing, 275 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0'53 ; bill at front, 0'3. 



Bill dusky-yellow at gape and beneath, and dusky at tip ; 

 Hides deep-brown ; legs brown. 



Above light brownish-grey, beneath white, tinged with very 

 pale-ashy on the breast, sides of throat, and flanks ; eyelids 

 conspicuously white. 



The Southern Brown Fly-catcher occurs sparingly throughout 

 the Deccan, but is rather more common at Belgaum and "Ratnagiri. 

 It has not been recorded from either Sind or Guzerat. 



Butalis grisola, Lin. 



299bis. Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 467 ; 



Muscicapa grisola, Lin. ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 



p. 127. 



THE SPOTTED-GREY FLY-CATCHER. 

 THE CHERRY CHOPPER. 



Length, 6 to 6 '3 ; expanse, 10 to 10*5; wing, 3'25 to 3'45 ; tail 

 from vent, 2 '7 5 to 3 ; tarsus, 0'6. 



Bill black, dark fleshy at base of lower mandible ; irides deep- 

 brown ; legs and feet blackish-brown. 



The lores and feathers immediately above the nostrils dingy 

 fulvous-white ; head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts, back and scapulars, 

 pale-earthy or greyish-brown ; the feathers of the head with 

 darker brown central streaks not extending to the tips, and those 

 of the forehead tinged with the fulvous color of the lores ; the 

 rump in some uniform with the back, in others slightly darker ; 

 wings and tail brown, paler and greyer on the tertials and laterals ; 

 all the feathers margined with brownish- white, the greater 

 secondary-coverts and tertials most broadly so ; the tail-feathers, 

 except the exterior lateral ones, very inconspicuously so ; lower 

 parts white, tinged with fawn-color towards the vent, and with 

 narrrow inconspicuous grey-brown streaks on the breast ; axillaries 

 and wing-lining very pale rufous-fawn ; sides and flanks tinged 

 faintly with the same color and dull fulvous. 



The Cherry Chopper only occurs as a very rare visitant, during 

 August and September, to parts of Sind and Guzerat. It has 

 not been recorded from the Deccan. 



GENUS, Stoporala, Slyth. 



Bill short, depressed, perfectly triangular, short, much hooked 

 at tip ; rictal and nareal bristles moderate ; wings rather long ; 



