42 Lieut. R. E. Vauglian and StafP-Surg. K. H. Joues 



their enormous tails dry, or how they steer with them in 

 high winds, or how they make their way about in the 

 dense undergrowth, are all problems, but undoubtedly they 

 achieve these undertakings with complete success. 



CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS. 



The Grey-headed Flycatcher occurs only as a winter 

 visitor to Howlik ; this is a considerable extension of its 

 range to the eastward. 



Seen among the tree-tops, this species may be very 

 easily mistaken for one of the smaller Phylloscopi. It 

 is very tame and has a sweet, shrill, and rather loud trill, 

 and in its habits closely resembles Alseuuax and Hei/ucheUdon. 



Cryptolopha tephkocephala. 



Cryjjtolopha affinis (Horsf. & JMoore); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 

 iv. p. 398 pt. 



The riycatcher-Warbler is rather a rare winter visitor, 

 in habits somewhat resembling Phylloscopus super ciliosus, 

 and like the latter is given to assuming the inverted position 

 on a tree-trunk, and to hovering before a leaf on which 

 insects are to be found ; it, however, possesses a much 

 sweeter note and a decided fondness for dense undergrowth. 



This bird was only observed at Macao and in the forest 

 at Howlik. 



Stoparola melaxops. 



This Flycatcher undoubtedly breeds in the woods of 

 the monastery at Tam Chau, in Kwang Si, for on 

 August 15th a male and an immature bird coloured like 

 the adult, save for a brovin-spotted throat, were shot, while 

 a third was seen but not obtained. 



In habits they do not differ from other Flycatchers of 

 south-east China, but they were not heard to utter any note. 



This species has also occurred in the sj)ring at Macao. 



Phylloscopus borealis. 



Eversmann^s Willow-Warbler must be looked upon as 

 an irregular bird of passage, and like Phylloscopus xantho- 

 dryas is confined to the Kwang Tung littoral. Immense 



