AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MYSORE. 369 
292.—Leucocerca aureola, Vieill. The White-browed 
Fantail. 
I saw this species only on two or three occasions in the 
Mysore country and Wynaad, and obtained one young bird 
at Rampore on the 21st of May. It is, I should say, decidedly 
a rare bird in the country through which I passed. 
293.—Leucocerca leucogaster, Cuv. The White- 
spotted Fantail. 
This Flycatcher is a common species on the Nilghiris, but it 
is most abundant on the warmer slopes about 5,000 to 6,000 
feet ; it also occurs through the Wynaad and in parts of Mysore, 
but less abundantly. 
The following are the dimensions taken in the flesh of a 
fine male shot in Ootacamund on the 15th of March 1881 :— 
Length, 7:2; expanse, 9:2; tail, 4:0; wing, 3°05; tarsus, 
0-7; bill from gape, 0°5 ; weight, 0°35 ozs. 
Bill black ; legs and feet dull purplish black; irides dark 
brown. 
295.—Culicicapa ceylonensis, Sws. The Grey- 
headed Flycatcher. 
Dr. Jerdon in bis.“ Birds of India’ has given a capital 
account of the habits of this species. As he remarks, it is 
very abundant on the higher ranges of the Nilghiris, but it 
is also common throughout the whole district included in the 
present paper wherever the country is well-wooded, and where 
it occurs is, 1 believe, a permanent resident. 
297.—Alseonax latirostris, ‘The Southern Brown 
Flycatcher. 
I not unfrequently met with this species in the Wynaad. I 
have not noticed it in those parts of the Mysore country 
through which I passed. I have on two or three occasions 
found it on the slopes of the Nilghiris, but it is I think most nu- 
merous in the Wynaad, but even there it is not a common bird. 
It is of course only a cold weather visitant. I find I have 
specimens shot as late as the 4th of April. 
300.—Ochromela nigrorufa, Jerd. The Black and 
Orange Flycatcher, 
This lovely little bird is common on the Nilghiris and its 
slopes ; it occurs alsoin the Wynaad, but is rare there. Jerdon’s 
description of the habits of this is extremely good, except in 
that he states that “it is a very silent bird.’ I almost always 
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