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paler, the rest of the plumage being as in the female, except that the lower 

 back and rump are blue. The nestling is spotted and very like the young 

 of Muscicapa grisola, but much darker. 



Hal. Eastern Siberia, Manchuria, and Japan, passing through 

 China on migration ; and wintering as far south as Borneo. 



Frequents woods and groves where conifers are intermingled 

 with deciduous trees, and in its general habits resembles the 

 true Flycatchers. Its song is said to be melodious and pro- 

 longed, and is usually uttered from the top of a tree. It breeds 

 in the Ussuri country, where it arrives about the middle of 

 May, and in Japan, placing its nest in a mossy bank ; and its 

 eggs, 5 in number, are greyish white with very faint darker 

 markings at the larger end, and measure about 0'76 by 0'64. 



XANTHOPYGIA, Blyth, 1847. 



381. NARCISSUS FLYCATCHER. 

 XANTHOPYGIA NARCISSINA. 



Xaniliopygia narcissma (Temm.), PI. Col. iii. pi. 577, fig. 1 (1838) ; (id, 

 and Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 46, pis. 17, 17c ; Sharpe, Cat. B, 

 Br. Mus. iv. p. 249 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 479 ; Seebohm, B. Jap, 

 Emp. p. 61. 



ad. (Japan). Crown, nape, sides of head and neck, wings, tail, and 

 upper parts deep black ; a large white patch on the wing-coverts ; rump, 

 lures, and a broad supercilium bright lemon-yellow ; chin, throat, and 

 breast bright orange-yellow ; flanks lemon-yellow ; rest of the under parts 

 white ; beak black, paler below ; legs plumbeous ; iris blackish brown. 

 Culmen 0*51, wing 3'05, tail 1*95, tarsus 0'62 inch. The female is olive- 

 brown above, tinged with greenish on the rump ; under parts whitish, 

 washed with yellow ; supercilium yellowish white ; wings brown, mar- 

 gined with rufous ; tail rufous brown. The young bird has the upper parts 

 dark brown, closely spotted with ochreous ; wings and tail brown with 

 fulvous margins, under parts white, the throat finely and the breast boldly 

 spotted with brown. 



Hob. The island of Saghalien and Japan, occurring on the 

 east and south coasts of China on migration ; and wintering in 

 the Philippines ; it is said to remain occasionally in Japan in 

 the winter. 



In its habits it is very shy and frequents the deep woods, 

 especially those where there are old trees. Its song is melodious 



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