270 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON [May 15, 



Fam. MusciCAPiD^. 



MUSCICAPULA HYPERYTHRA (Bljth). 



Muscicapula hyperythra, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 206 ; 

 Salvad. t. c. p. 203. 



"No. 93. S ad. Ulu Batang Padang (4200 feet). 



" Trides dark brown ; legs and feet flesh-colour. Frequents the 

 undergrowth in the forests." 



This little Flycatcher is now recorded from the Malayan Peninsula 

 for the first time. Its presence was, however, to be suspected, as 

 the species occurs in the Eastern Himalayas and again iu Java and 

 Sumatra. 



Muscicapula westermanni, sp. n. 



" No. 115. d ad. Gunong Ulu Batang Padang (4200 feet). 



" Irides hght brown." 



Adult male, (ieneral colour above blue-grey, with a slight brown 

 wash on the scapulars and lower back ; rump ochreous brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts a Httle more rufescent ; wing-coverts dusky, edged 

 with ochreous brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, fringed with oUve-brown, the secondaries rather more 

 rufescent on the base of the outer web ; tail-feathers brown, exter- 

 nally rufous-brown ; head blue-grey like the back, a little more 

 hoary on the forehead ; lores and eyelid white ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of face blue-grey, with a few whitish lines on the former ; 

 throat white, with a slight ashy tinge ; remainder of under surface 

 of body white, the sides of the breast ashy grey ; sides of body also 

 washed with ashy grey ; under tail-coverts white ; thighs ashy ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing 

 blackish ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 37 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2-2, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 0"55. 



This is a very curious form, recalling the characters of several 

 of the other Muscicapulce. It may not be the fully adult of its 

 species, but I believe it to be so. The reddish upper tail-coverts 

 and tail remind one of the female of M. maculata, but the blue- 

 grey upper surface distinguishes it at a glance. The female and 

 young male of M. superciliaris have generally an ochreous tinge on 

 the throat which distinguish them ; but one specimen from Sikhim is 

 white below like M. westermanni, while the upper surface is brown 

 and the shade of blue which is seen on it (it is apparently a young 

 male) is not slaty blue, but bright blue as in the adults. 



Terpsiphone affinis (Blyth). 



Terpsiphone affinis, Gates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 261. 



Muscipeta affinis, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 58. 



"No. 118. S ad. Batang Padang Mountains, Perak. 

 . " Irides dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet same. This species 

 occurs in Penang, Province Wellesley, and the Batang Padang Dis- 

 trict of Perak, but iu Larut it is replaced by a slightly larger and 

 whiter species." 



