ORB. INSESSORES, 



TRIBE— DENTIROSTRES. 



FAIL 31 US CI C API D^. 

 GEN. LEUCOCIRCA. 



PLATE 11. 



LE UCO cm CA ALB OFR ONTA TA. 



WHITE- BROWED F ANT AIL. 



Synon. — Blnpidura albofrontata, Franklin — Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831^ page 116. 



Mucliurrea, Hindustani. 



In tlie excellent volxune on Flycatchers by Swainson, in the Naturalist's 

 Library, tbis genus was first proposed to be separated from Rhipidura ; the cbief 

 distinctions being the bill more lengthened, broader at the base, and less compressed 

 towards the tip, the bristles not quite so long, and the legs and feet more deve- 

 loped. It appears restricted to the tropics of the old world, more especially to 

 India and its Islands. 



The subject of our present plate was first described by Major Franklin, in his 

 usefid Catalogue of Birds procured by him on the banks of the Ganges and the Vindhiau 

 range of mountaius, which was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 

 1831. It was also iacluded by Colonel Sykes ia his Catalogue of the Birds of the Diikhun, 

 pubhshed in the same work, and I gave a brief account of its habits in my Catalogue of 

 Birds of the Peninsula of India, published in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science. 

 It would accordingly appear to have a tolerably extensive distribution over the continent 

 of India, though it has not been found in Bengal, its place there being taken by the 

 Rhipidura fuscoventris of Franklin, which I have not yet observed in the Peninsula, 



