BIRDS COLLECTED IN CHINA, ETC. 



DICRURUS COERULESCENS, (Linnajus.) 



Lanius coerulescens, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 134, (1766.) 

 Edwards Birds, 2, pi. 56. 

 From Pointe de G-alle, Ceylon. 



TEPHRODORNIS PONDICER1ANA, (Gmelin.) 



Muscicapa pondiceriana, Gon. Syst. Nat. II, p. 939, (1788.) 



Kerodla lndica, Hardw. and Gray, 111. Ind. ZooL, (name on plate. 



Lamius musctcapoides, Franklin Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1831, p. 117. 



Keroula shrike, Latham. 



Hardw. and Gray, 111. Ind. Zool., pi. 33, figs. 1-2. 



From Singapore. 



ERTTHROSTERNA RUBECULA, (Swainson.) 



Muscicapa rubecula, Swains. Nat. Lib. Orn. X, p. 221, (1838.) 



Nat. Lib. Orn. X, pi. 27. 



A single specimen, apparently a female, from Ceylon. 



This species is not given by Mr. Layard in his valuable "Notes on the Ornithology of 

 Ceylon," in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (vols. 13, 14.) He does give, how- 

 ever, Cyomis rubeculoides, and possibly alludes to the present bird. 



The present specimen is strictly identical with others in the museum of the Philadelphia 

 Academy, labeled as from the island of Java. Mr. Swainson very probably describes and 

 figures the female only. The male in the museum just mentioned is quite different in the 

 color of the upper parts — head, back, and rump ashy black, (or slate color ;) line over and 

 behind the eye, white ; tips of the greater wing coverts white, forming a wide oblique stripe 

 across the wing. Quills and tail brownish black, the latter, with the external webs of the outer 

 feathers white at the base of the tail. Under parts fine reddish fulvous, as in the female ; 

 ventral region and under tail coverts, white. Total length about 5 inches, wing 3, tail 2| 

 inches. 



The male, above described, we do not at present remember to have ever seen described ; but 

 it is not improbable that it may have received a distinct specific designation. This bird is 

 generically, or at least sub-generically, distinct from Cyomis. 



Mr. Heine's note on this species is : 



"Inhabits trees around houses at Pointe de Galle, Ceylon." 



HYPOTHYMIS CYANOMELANA, (Temminck.) 



Muscicapa cyanomelana, Temm. pi. col. 3, (liv. 70.) 

 Temm. and Schleg. Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 17, D; Temm. pi. col. 470. 



From the vicinity of Macao ; where, according to Mr. Heine, it is abundant, inhabiting the 

 bushes in the outskirts of the town, and occasionally gardens. 



LTJSCIOLA CYANURA, Temm. and Schleg. 



Lusciola cyanura, Temm. and Schleg. Faun. Jap., p. 54, (1850.) 



Temm. and Schleg. Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 21. 



From Macao ; and, according to Mr. Heine, found in similar localities as the preceding. 



