1872.] MR. E. W. H. HOLDSWORTH ON CEYLONESE BIRDS. 441 



Ceylon ; and L. compressirostris may perhaps best be considered a 

 variety of it. 

 Ceylon, India. 



Leucoeerca ? Mr. Hugh Nevill (J. R. A. S., Cey. Br., 1867- 



70, pt. i. p. 138) records the occurrence in the country round Nuwara 

 Eliya of a Flycatcher which he calls Leucoeerca fuscoventris, Franklin. 

 The characters he gives of the species are evidently taken from a 

 description of L. pectoralis, Jerdon ; and from what I know of the 

 circumstances I believe 1 am quite justified in saying that Mr. Nevill 

 never saw the Nuwara-Eliya bird except alive in the jungle. 



It is not unlikely, however, that a Leucoeerca, probably L. pecto- 

 ralis, may be found on the Nuwara-Eliya hills, although it has not 

 yet been clearly identified. 



120. Myialestes cinereocapilla, Vieill. 



Resident and very common in the Nuwara Eliya district. It fre- 

 quents the lower branches of trees and is very bold and familiar, so 

 much so as to be rather a pest when one is collecting in the jungle, 

 from its habit of following one about or flitting from branch to 

 branch just in front of one. I believe that in Ceylon it is almost 

 entirely confined to the upper hills. 



Bill dusky ; irides brown ; feet fleshy brown. 



Ceylon, India to Burmah and Tenasserim, China. 



121. Alseonax latirostris, Raffles. 



A winter visitor to Ceylon, arriving early in October at Aripo. 

 It is common there until April, and is also found about Colombo at 

 the same season. Its manners are precisely the same as those of the 

 European B. grisola, to which species it is closely allied. 



Bill black, base yellow ; irides brown ; feet black. 



Ceylon, S. India, China. 



122. Alseonax terricolor, Hodg. 



Butalis muttui, Layard, described by him from a single specimen 

 obtained at Point Pedro, agrees with Hodgson's A. terricolor from 

 India. It is very rave in Ceylon. 



Ceylon, North and Central India. 



, 123. OCHROMELA NIGRORTJFA, Jerdon. 



Jerdon says of this Flycatcher that "it has hitherto (1862) only 

 been found on the summit of the Neilgherries and highest mountains 

 of Ceylon." I can find no record, however, of this species occurrino- 

 in Ceylon except that, by Layard, who says he saw a drawing made 

 by Mr. E. L. Mitford from a specimen he obtained at Ratnapoora. 

 This is in the low country and probably not a hundred feet above 

 the level of the sea. 



124. Eumyias sordida, Walden. 



This species, distinguished and described by Lord Walden (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. 1870, p. 218), is very common at Nuwara Eliya. I have 



