36 THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION. 
301.—Stoporala melanops, Vig. 
The Verditer Flycatcher is only a cold weather visitor. It 
is never, however, abundant, and frequents for the most part 
the better wooded tracts of the district, though I have seen it 
in my own garden, and very often in the Wingfield Park and 
Horticultural Gardens, Lucknow. 
It breeds in Kumaon, where it was very plentiful in June. 
On the 10th of that month, 1 found a nest and three fully 
fledged young in. a dak bungalow out-house. The nest, for 
the most part built of moss, semi-globular and rather massive 
in appearance, and lined with fine black roots, was placed 
between the roof and ridge-pole, resting on the latter. Again, 
on the 12th, I took a nest of similar construction from under 
the exposed roots of a tree ina roadside embankment. The 
eggs, three in number and quite fresh, were of a creamy 
white color, with a light but well-defined reddish brown Zone 
round the thick end of each, with the circular space at the end 
within the zone of a still lighter shade. They measure respec- 
tively ‘76 by ‘54, 72 by ‘55, and ‘78 by ‘56 inches. 
304.—Cyornis rubeculoides, Vig. 
The Blue-throated Redbreast is only a cold weather visitor, - 
numerically rare and seldom seen, except perhaps in the guava 
groves and gardens about Lucknow. In the district it is occa- 
sionally met with in mangoe topes, frequenting low branches, 
often small shoots projecting from the trunks of the trees, from 
which it sallies forth after insects, rarely returning to the same 
perch, and seldom to the same tree. 
306.—Cyornis tickelli, Bly. 
Tickell’s Blue Redbreast is perhaps rather commoner than 
the last species, but is similar in habits, and frequents the same 
localities, keeping, however, more to the upper than to the 
lower branches of trees. It is, of course, only acold weather 
visitor. 
323.—Erythrosterna albicilla, Pad. 
From having for a long while confounded this, the Eastern 
White-tailed Robin Flycatcher, with the next species, I am 
unable to say much about it, but my impression is that it is 
quite as common as E. parva during the cold weather, and in 
its habits exactly resembles that bird, frequenting the same 
localities. 
323 bis.—Erythrosterna parva, Bechst. 
The White-tailed Robin Flycatcher is common during the 
cold weather in mangoe groves, gardens, &c., almost indeed 
