Muscipeta paradisea. 



serving this bird have served. I have generally seen it single, occasionally in. pairs. It 

 is said to breed in bamboos. It has a loud harsh grating cry of alarm, but I never heard 

 any other note. When it seizes an insect it makes a loud snap with its mandibles. 



I need not give a further description of the Paradise Flycatchei', and shall merely 

 here add its dimensions. Length to end of ordinary tail about 9 inches — "wing oJg — tail 

 about 5, centre tail feathers vary fi-om 14 to 21 inches or more — bill at front /^-ths — at 

 gape IjVth — tarsus /oths — bill and orbits lilac blue — inside of mouth pale yellow — legs 

 and feet pale blueish — iiddes dark brown. Mr. Ward informs me that he lately procured 

 a white male with 3 long tail feathers. 



Its name in Hindustanee is Hoosseinee Bulhid (the white one) and Shah Bulbul 

 or Sultana Bulbid (the chesnut one.) In Teloogoo it is called Tonka Peegeelee-pitta, 

 which means long tailed Bulbul, and in Tamool, Walkonddlatee, which has the same 

 meaning. In Malyaluin I was informed it is called by a name signifying the king of heayen. 



