4G8 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



f ulvescent ; throat and breast light ferruginous ; belly albescent ; 

 under tail-coverts pure white ; bill blackish ; legs pale. 



Length 5| inches; wing 2| ; tail 2| ; bill at front 10 mill. ; 

 tarsus f . 



This species differs from the last in the duller and more grey 

 tints of the upper plumage, and the paler hue of the lower sur- 

 face ; the rufescent medial portion of the throat is wider, too, than 

 in the last bird. Its colouring recalls that of some of the Australian 

 Myiagree. 



Tickell's Bhie Redbreast has only as yet been procured in Cen- 

 tral India, and by that naturalist. He found it rare, silent, 

 frequenting high trees in Borabhum. 



307. Cyornis ruficauda, Swains. 



IMuscicapa apud Swainson — J. A. S., XYI., 1 20 — C. a^qualicauda, 

 Blyth, J. A. S., XX., 523 — Muse, rubecula, Swains., apud 

 JiOKDON, Suppl. Cat., 154 bis. 



The Rufous-tailed Flycatcher. 



Descr. — Above, olivaceous-brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 ferruginous, and the tail bright dark ferruginous, the middle pair 

 suffused with dusky, and the outer webs of the others also sullied 

 with fuscous ; beneath, the chin whitish, the rest of the plumage 

 below pale greyish-brown, passing to white on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, which last are faintly tinged with ferruginous ; bill 

 dusky ; irides deep brown. 



Length 5h inches ; wing 2| to 3 ; tail 2^ ; tarsus |. 



Such is the coloring of two specimens procured, the one in the 

 Himalayas, in Kumaon and Kunawar, the other near the extreme 

 South of India, at Nellore in the Carnatic. I am strongly inclined 

 to suspect the identity of these with my M. rubecula, referred to 

 above, shot on the Coonoor pass of the Neilgherries, of which the 

 following is a description : — 



Head and neck greenish-cinereous ; back olivaceous ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail bright cinnamon-rufous ; throat and breast, orange ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, white. 



