1843.] Mr. Blyttis Report for December Meeting, 1842. 935 



nicura superciliaris, Jerdon, Supplement. Nepal : also the Neilgher- 

 ries. 



4. C. brunnea ; L. brunnea, Hodgson, ibid ( Non vidij. Nepal.* 



5. C. (?) cruralis, Nobis, ante. Darjeeling.f 



Rhipidura hypoxantha, Nobis. Length four inches and a half, by 

 six inches in alar expanse ; of wing two inches and one-eighth, and 

 middle tail-feathers two inches and a quarter ; bill to forehead (through 

 the feathers) under three-eighths of an inch, being proportionally 

 much shorter than in its congeners ; and tarse half an inch. Colour 

 of the upper-parts dusky-ash, tinged with green on the head ; lores 

 black ; a bright yellow eye-streak, continued across the forehead ; and 

 the under-parts wholly bright yellow : tail conspicuously white-shafted, 

 with also white interior edges to the feathers for their terminal half: 

 bill dusky above, the under mandible pale ; and legs pale brownish, 

 darker on the toes. Darjeeling. Specimen preserved in spirits. 



The following are the Asiatic species of this genus at present known 

 to me : — 



1. Rh. fuscoventris, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 117 ; Broad-tailed 

 Flycatcher of Latham; Muscicapa ( Muscylva) albogularis f Lesson, 

 Zoologie du Voyage de M. Belanger, p. 264. Common in the vicinity 

 of Calcutta at all seasons, but rather of local distribution in penin- 

 sular India. J The male has a short, but musical, tinkling song. 



2. Rh. albofrontata, Franklin, ibid. Common in peninsular India, 

 extending northward to the vicinity of Saharunpore, where the pre- 

 ceding species is also met with ; but it does not appear to occur in 

 Lower Bengal. 



3. Rh. pectoralis, Jerdon, M, S.§ Length about seven inches, of 

 which the tail measures nearly four inches ; closed wing three inches. 

 Upper-parts brownish-dusky ; the head black, passing into the former : 



* Mr. Hodgson says "sexes alike," or I should have suspected the female of 

 C. Lathami to be intended. 



t A Nepalese example of this species has just been received from Mr. Hodgson, 

 who refers it to bis genus Larvivora. 



% The Rh. fuscoventris mentioned in Mr. Jerdon's catalogue as having been seen, 

 but not procured, by him on the Neilgherries, proved to be Rh. pectoralis ; but the 

 other is included in Col. Sykes's list of the birds of Deccan, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85. 



§ Briefly described in the first No. of Mr. Jerdon's ' Illustrations of Indian Orni- 

 thology', which has just appeared. 



