MUSCICAPID^E. 137 



Alseonax latirostris, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 459. 

 a Madras (" Muscicapa poonensis, Sykes " T. C. Jerdori) 

 1845. 



ERYTHROSTERNA. 

 Erythrosterna, Bonaparte, Comp. List., p. 25 (1838). 



662. Erythrosterna parva. 



Muscicapa parva, Bechst. Naturgesch. Deutschl. iv. p. 505 : 

 Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. i. p. 224. 



Erythrosterna parva, Bp. I. s. c. : Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 128. 

 a Nepal (B, H. Hodgson) 1845. 



Strickland wrote on the label of this specimen " No doubt = parva 

 of Europe as figured by Gould." 



663. Erythrosterna leucura. 



Muscicapa leucura, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 939. 



Erythrosterna leucura. Bp. Consp. i. p. 418 : Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 481. 



a Madras (" Muscicapa leucura " T. C. Jerdon) 1845. 

 b India (" Siphya ? leucura, fern. " E. Blyth} 1846. 



Strickland (Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 35) corrected Blyth's 

 statement (J. A. S. B. xi. p. 791) that the Indian species of this form 

 is the M. leucura Latham but not of Ginelin, the fact being that 

 Gmelin gave a Latin name to Latham's bird, which the latter states 

 came from the Cape of Good Hope. Strickland further suggested 

 that as the description agrees fairly well with the Indian bird, the 

 South African locality assigned to it was probably erroneous. 



664. Erythrosterna melanoleuca. 



Muscicapa maculata, Tick. J. A. S. B. ii. p. 574, fide Jerd. 

 B. Ind. i. p. 483. 



Muscicapula melanoleuca, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 940. 

 a Arakan (E. Blyth} 1847. b India (W. J. E. Boys) 1848. 



I do not see how Tickell's name can possibly be used for this 

 species. Its author gave no description of his own of the bird, sup- 

 posing he had before him the "Pied Flycatcher" of Linnseus as 

 represented by Bewick. 



