AND NORTHERN GUZERAT. 467 



[Tin's is another outlier. It is entirety unknown in the whole 

 region, and belongs altogether to more southern, better-wooded 

 and better-watered localities. — A. 0. H.] 



[299 bis.— Butalis grisola, Lin. 



Dr. King was the first to obtain this species, the Spotted Grey 

 Flycatcher or Cherry Chopper, which I discriminated in his col- 

 lection. It occurs, but rarely, during the latter part of the mon- 

 soon, throughout the whole region extending even as far eastwards 

 as Sambhur. I do not know that it actually ascends Mount 

 Aboo ; my specimen is from near Anadra, obtained late in 

 August; others from Jodhpoor on 8th and 16th September, one 

 from Sambhur in the 28th Augnst, two from Cutch in Septem- 

 ber, one from Kotree, Sindh, "end of August," and Captain 

 Hayes Lloyd says he got one specimen near Rajkote, Kattiawar, 

 during the cold season. 



Not being included by Dr. Jerdon and not having been previ- 

 ously described in Stray Feathers, I reproduce my description 

 from Lahore to Yarkand, p. 33. 



Dimensions (the females are slightly the smallest. Length, 

 6 to 6*3; expanse, 10 to 10*5; wing, 3*25 to 3'45 ; tail from 

 vent, 275 to 3 ; tarsus, 0*6. 



Description. — Bill black, dark fleshy at base of lower man- 

 dible ; legs and feet blackish-brown ; iris deep brown ; interior 

 of mouth orange. 



Plumage. — The lores and feathers immediately above the nos- 

 trils dingy fulvous white ; head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts, back 

 and scapulars, pale earthy or greyish brown ; the feathers of 

 the head with darker brown central streaks not extending to the 

 tips, and those of the forehead tinged with the fulvous colour of 

 the lores ; the rump in some uniform with the back, in others 

 slightly darker ; wings and tail brown, paler and greyer on 

 the tertials and laterals; all the feathers margined with brownish 

 white, the greater secondary coverts and tertials most broadly 

 so ; the tail feathers except the exterior lateral ones very incon- 

 spicuously so ; lower parts white, tinged with fawn color to- 

 wards the vent, and with narrow inconspicuous grey-brown 

 streaks on the breast ; axillaries and wing lining very pale 

 rufous fawn, sides and flanks tinged faintly with the same colour 

 and dull fulvous. — A. 0. H.] 



301— Stoparola melanops, Vigors. 



The Verditer Flycatcher is rare. I have never seen it in the 

 plains, and have only observed it on one or two occasions at 

 Mount Aboo during the rains. It arrives in September. 



[Unknown throughout the whole region, save on its ex- 

 treme eastern limits, where at Sambhur one or two stragglers 

 have been obtained. — A. O. H.] 



