292 AVIFAUNA OF CHOTA NAGPUR. 



Tchitrea paradisi, Lin. (288). 



That the Paradise Flycatcher does not make its appearance in 

 the Chota Nagpur and Sambalpur jungles earlier in the year 

 than March, may, I feel confident, be accepted as a somewhat 

 remarkable fact in the migration of birds. Whence does it 

 come ? During the present year until after the commencement 

 of April I neither heard nor saw a single individual in Sam- 

 balpur. Then, however, I saw them almost daily, and continued 

 to do so during the month of May when marching through the 

 Orissa tributary mehals. 



Both Captain Grey and Mr. Levin confirm my statement that 

 this bird does sometimes alight on the ground. The former 

 says that at one place " I had three of the chestnut birds hopping 

 about on the ground round my chair and within ten yards of 

 me. The white specimens appeared to be much more shy." 

 Mr. Levin writes : " Those that came about my garden this year, 

 sometimes, I noticed, settled on the ground and then hopped 

 about for a few paces after insects. At least the young did so ; I 

 did not observe the same habit in the old birds." He mentions 

 Laving obtained it a young chesnut-plumaged male with white 

 wings. 



Muscicapula superciliaris, Jerd. (310). 



The White-browed Blue Flycatcher is perhaps not so rare 

 in Chota Nagpur as I supposed. From its keeping chiefly to 

 the tops of high trees it doubtless often escapes observation. 

 Mr. Levin obtained it at Daltongunj. In Sambalpur I frequent- 

 ly met with it. 



Myiophoneus Horsfieldii, Vig. (342) 



The Malabar Whistling Thrush occurs, I find, in the same 

 tract of jungle as that which I have above alluded to in connec- 

 tion with Dissemurus and Chibia. This is at a much lower level 

 (below 1,000 feet) than any of the places I had previously noted 

 it as occurring in. I shot one specimen in March of the present 

 year in a stream in the northern part of Raigarh, where I also 

 obtained Geocichla unicolor and saw Oreocincla dauma. 



Pitta coronata was extremely abundant in May in the heavy 

 jungle of the tributary states included in Sambalpur and Orissa. 



Pycnonotus haemorrhous, Gm. (462). 



The Common Madras Bulbul has been shewn to be quite 

 distinct from P. clirysorrlwides, Lafr., and the above name used 

 by Jerdon still stands for this species.* 



* I rather question this. I think the species must staid asjcmsillus, Bly. — Ed. 



