1841.] Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 637 



29. Muscicapa Flammea. — Flameous Fly-catcher. 



Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 



Muscicapa Flammea, Shaw. Gen. Zool. X. 372. 



Flammeous Fly-catcher. Latham Gen. Hist. VI. 173. 



Muscipeta Flammea. Zool. Proceedings, 1832, p. 85. 



" I met with this bird in a grove of trees near Gyah, there were a 

 pair of them, the female merely differing in the plumage being less 

 bright."— C. W, Smith's MS. Notes, 



The specimens in the Museum were shot at Garden Reach in the 

 beginning of the year 1836, when a flight of them settled in some 

 lofty larch trees. The morning was foggy, and none were seen during 

 a space of two months afterwards. A specimen was brought to the 

 Curator at Midnapore. He has also seen them at Juanpore, and they 

 are not uncommon at Darjeeling. The female is yellow where the 

 male is red. 



29. Another specimen of the Flammeous Fly-catcher. See Note 

 above. 



30. Muscicapa Ccerulea, — The Caerulean Fly-catcher. 

 Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 



Muscicapa Ccerulea. Gmelin. Lin. Syst Nat. L 943. Turton's Lin. 

 L 579. Stephens' Shaws' Gen. Zool. X. 383 Griffith's Cuvier, VL 

 341. 



Azure Fly-catcher. Latham Gen. Hist. VI. 180. 



Gobemouche Azur. Diet. Class. D'Hist. Nat. VII. 401. 



The Caerulean Fly-catcher is a native of Bengal. It is common at 

 Garden Reach and its vicinity, where it is to be seen in the lower 

 branches of the mangoe trees, from whence it now and then takes a 

 short flight in pursuit of insects, returning again immediately to the 

 same tree. 



31. Muscicapa — . Broad-tailed Fly-catcher. 



Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 

 Broad-tailed Fly-catcher. Latham. Gen. Hist. VI. 178. 



The broad-tailed Fly-catcher is met with at Garden Reach, near 

 Calcutta. Its habits are much the same as those of the Caerulean 

 Fly-catcher. 



