472 REMARKS ON THE GENUS MICROPTERNUS, Blyth. 



layan wanderings I have not been able to come across a 

 Muscicapula with both sexes alike, the only birds that come 

 any way near Hodgson's drawing are females of Muscicapula. 



No. 591 of Jerdon was intended to describe Motacilla -per so- 

 nata, Gould., and is not the true 31. dukhuneusis, Sykes. I 

 carefully examined the type of the latter in the Kensington 

 Museum, and it is the bird so like M. alba with the white 

 surrounding the eye in communication with that of the lower 

 surface. It is of purer grey on the back than M. alba, and 

 there is more white on the greater wing-coverts. 



The large resident species, M. madaraspatana, is well known. 

 It occurs also in the hills, and I obtained it in Cashmere. 



Mot. personata, Gould. 



Is a cold-weather visitant, and is grey on the back at 

 all times. The white eye-patch is entirely bounded by black. 

 Change the grey back to a black one, and it becomes the 

 resident hill species, M. Ilodgsoni, Grey, which does not 

 come to the plains. Our fifth and last Indian Motacilla is M. luz- 

 oniensis, with much white on the face ; always a white throat, and 

 the back jet black in summer, and more or less black in adults 

 in winter. It comes plentifully to the plains, but its western 

 limit appears to be somewhere about Buxar. I never got one 

 near Benares, while it is plentiful at Dinapore. In immature 

 birds the greater amount of white on the greater wing-coverts 

 distinguishes it. The face white of luzoniensis communicates 

 down the side of the neck as in dukhunensis, with the white of 

 the lower surface. 



I have found both M. dhuhmensis and M. personata generally 

 distributed over the North- West, and have obtained them as far 

 east as Assensole near Raneegunge. I have not observed how 

 much further east and south they are found. 



I notice in the last part of Stray Feathers that the Editor 

 has revised my paper on the Indian Creepers ( Certhince) ; and 

 in the alterations I entirely concur. 



Uemarltf on t|e tans SJinroptcrnus, Blyth. 



In my revised list of the birds of Tenasserim, (now in type, 

 and to appear, D. V., in the next number ) I have entered all 

 the Micropterni from Mergui, and the more southern portions 

 of the province as M. brachyurus, Vieill., but it must not be 

 supposed that I, therefore, consider them quite identical with 

 specimens from Java, Sumatra, and the southern portions of 



