392 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
China-Ba-keer. It was especially numerous in the vicinities of 
villages, where parties of from ten to twenty or more would 
perch in the upper branches of some tall tree, whence they would 
sally forth at intervals in quest of insects, Male birds measure 
in the flesh :— 
Length, 7 to 7°5; expanse, 14°5 to 15; wing, 5 to 5-15; tail 
from vent, 2°3 to 2°5; tarsus, °6 to °7; bill from gape, °85 to ‘95. 
A female measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 7°3 ; expanse, 14°75 ; wing, 5°05 ; tail from vent, 2°3 5 
tarsus, 6; bill from gape, °9. 
In both sexes the irides are dark brown; bill, greenish blue, 
tipped with dusky ; legs and feet dark, dark slate color. 
290.—Myiagra azurea, Bodd. 
This species was abundant throughout the entire district, fre- 
quenting for the most part the underwood in forest jungle. [ 
have generally met with it in small parties of four or five, all of 
which were usually females. The male bird when met with was 
generally solitary, but now and then I observed one amongst a 
party of females. The females are somewhat smaller than the 
males. 
Four females measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 5°8 to 6-2; expanse, 5°75 to 6°5 ; wing, 2°6 to 2°85 ; 
tail from vent, 2°6 to 2:9; tarsus, ‘65 to “67; bill from gape, *7 
to 72. 
A male specimen measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°5 ; expanse, 6°75 ; wing, 2°95 ; tail from vent, 2:9; 
tarsus, ‘75; bill fromgape, °75. 
Irides, dark brown ; bill, indigo blue; legs and feet, slaty 
color. 
295.—Culicicapa cinereocapilla, Vieddiot. 
I have only met with this bird in the neighbourhood of Ran- 
goon, where it appears to be very rare. A male specimen shot 
in February measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 4°6 ; expanse, 6°75 ; tail from vent, 1°95; wing, 2°45; 
tarsus, 55 ; bill from gape, °5. 
Irides nearly black; bill, dusky above, dirty white under- 
neath ; legs and feet, brownish yellow. 
296.—Hemichelidon sibiricus, Gmel. 
This species appears to be rare. I only obtained a single 
specimen which I shot amongst the loose thickets near Elephant 
Point. It was a female, and measured in the flesh :-— 
Length, 4:7; expanse, 9°75; tail from vent, 2 ; wing, 2°9 ; 
tarsus, ‘55; bill from gape, ‘58: width at rictus, 37. 
