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MUSCIOA.PIDJB. 



1873, p. 7] ; id. Oat. Passerif. B. Br. M. p, 151 ; Blf. East Pers. p. 143; 

 Str. F. 1813, p. 377. Butalis grisola, Boie. Lis. 1826, p. 973; Cat. Mas. 

 Heine. Tk. i. p. 52; Sharpe, Gat. Afr. B. p. 42, No. 391 ; id. Ibis. 1872, 

 p. 70 ; Hume, Str. 7^.1875, p. 467 ; 1877, p. 495. Butalis africana, Bp. 

 0. B. xxxviii. p. 652. — The Spotted Geby Flx-Catchbe. 



Lores and feathers immediately above the nostrils dingy fulvous 

 white ; head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts, back and scapulars, pale earthy 

 or greyish brown ; the feathers of the head with darker brown central 

 streaks' not extending to the tips, and those of the forehead tinged with 

 the fulvous colour of the lores ; the rump, in some, uniform with the back, 

 in others slightly darker ; wings and tail brown, paler and greyer on 

 the tertiaries and laterals, all the feathers margined with brownish 

 white; the greater secondary coverts and tertials most broadly so ; the 

 tail feathers, except the exterior lateral ones, inconspicuously so; lower 

 parts white, tinged with faWn colour towards the vent, and with narrow 

 inconspicuous grey brown streaks on the breast; axillaries and wing 

 lining very pale rufous fawn ; sides and flanks tinged faintly with the 

 same colour and dull fulvous. 



" Bill black, dark fleshy at base of lower mandible ; legs and feet 

 blackish brown ; iris deep brown ; interior of mouth orange." — {Hume, 

 Str. F., vol. 3, p. 467.) 



Length. — 5'4 inches, bill at front 0'5.5, wing 3"4, tail2"45, tarsus 0'6. 



Hob. — The whole of Europe, extending in the winter into South 

 Africa and N. W. India, Sind, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Persia 

 (Northern and Southern) Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, Sambhur. Visits 

 Siudinthe course of itsmigrationin August and September, and at about 

 the same time of the year in other parts of the Western Presidency. 



Muscicapa parva, Bechst. Nat. Beutsch. iv. p. 505 ; Tern. Man. 

 i. p. 158; Werner Atlas Insedivores, pi. 10 ; Gray, Oen. Birds, i. p. 262; 

 Gould. B Eur. ii. pi. 64; Dresser, Ibis. 1876, p. 188. Brythrosterca 

 parva, Bp. Oonsp. List. 13., Eur. and N. Amer. p. 25; id. Cmisp. i. 

 p. 318; Blf. East. Pers. p. 144; Hume, Str. F. 1873, pp. 179, 

 377,405; 1875, p. 469; 1876, p. 273; 1877, p. 484.; vol. v. 471; 

 Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc., Sind, p. 139. Muscicapa rufogularis, Brehm. 

 Yog. Beutsch. p. 288. — The Eed-bebasted Fly-Catchee. 



Forehead, sides of face and ear-coverts grey; a circle of whitish 

 feathers round the eye ; crown of head, back, wing-coverts and the quills 

 externally ashy brown ; inner web of primaries dusky ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail dark brown, all, except the centre tail-feathers, white at their 

 bases ; the external web of the lateral ones on each side dusky ; chin, 

 cheeks, and foreneck orange, rest of under surface fulvous white or 

 bufiy white; thigh-coverts ashy brown; under wing-coverts fulvescent, 

 as are also the margins of the inner webs of the under surface of the 

 quills; bill brownish ; legs dark brown. 



Length. — 5 inches, bill at front 0*4, wing 2'6, tail 2. 



The female has the quills and wing-coverts, especially the greater 

 series, edged with light brown; the under parts of chin, throat and 

 breast deep bufly, and the abdomen and vent white. 



