236 NOTES UPON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE 



323 ter.— Erythrosterna hyperythra, Cdbanis. 



A single one obtained near Phedi in the beginning of May. 

 I did not see this species afterwards. It is not an Alpine bird. 



324. — Erythrosterna acornaus, Sodgs. 



I obtained a bird which appears to be this species near 

 Mussoori, on the 27th of April. Erythrosterna pusilla, 

 Blyth, is, as far as I can see, only the newly moulted autumnal 

 plumage of the female of Erythrosterna maculata, TickelL* 



The light tips to coverts wear off, and the rufous rump fades 

 very much, so that in summer the bird becomes quite ashy 

 in appearance. 



Jerdon remarks that " in summer the male assumes a bright 

 ferruginous colour on the chin and throat." He was surely 

 thinking of some other bird, perhaps the female of M. sappKira. 

 I have examined a good series from Darjeeling before coming 

 to the above conclusion. 



343.— Myiophonus Temminckii, Vigors. 



Very common along the banks of the Bhagiruttee. I saw 

 it nearly as far as Gangaotri. 



347. — Hydrobata asiatica, Swainson. 



Common on the Bhagiruttee from Bairamghati downwards. 



351. — Petrocossyphus (Cyanocincla) cyanus, Lin. 



A few seen about a rocky hill near Mussoori, opposite the 

 house named " Belle vue" at that station. 



352.— Orocetes (Petrophila) erythrogastra, Vigors. 



I saw one at Landour. 



353.— Orocetes (Petrophila) cinclorhynchus, Vigors. 



Common about Mussoori, and I observed it also at Laldri 

 and other places in the lesser ranges. 



356. — Turdus (Geocichla) unicolor, TickelL 



Common about Mussoori in the wooded valleys there. 



* These small Flycatchers are most puzzling, and I have been specially working them 

 for the last two years, in the hopes of completing an useful monograph of them. But 

 even with Hodgson's original drawings at hand, I have been utterly puzzled. I have at 

 least sis undescribed species, but cannot make sure, so close are the species and so brief are 

 the descriptions, which are the described and which the undescribed species. I do not 

 however think that there can be any doubt as to the distinctness of E. pusilla, Blyth. 

 The female of maculata, sent me with the male and nest, is grey brown, albescent beneath, 

 hut with the black tipper tail-coverts and black and ivhite tail of the male. Now in 

 acornaus the upper tail-coverts are fulvescent or rufous, and the tail feathers a dark some- 

 what rufescent brown, with rufous brown margins. Like Mr. Brooks, I have failed as 

 yet to procure any specimens of pusilla, with bright ferruginous chin and throat, but 

 I have never obtained this species when breeding. — Ed. 



