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Indian genera have all the Muscicapa adaptations fully developed, it 

 branches off to such forms as Piezorhynchus and Monarcha of Australia, 

 wherein those particular adaptations are much reduced. At the head 

 of the group may be placed the Tchitrece ; nearly allied to which are the 

 Myiagrce of Swainson, as exemplified by M. carulea, (Vieillot), of 

 India (which is Muse, occipitalis, Vigors, and the female — M. ceeruleo- 

 cephala of Sykes, nee M. cyanocephala, Gm., and 'Azure-headed 

 Flycatcher' of Latham.*) As seen alive, or in the recent state, the 

 approximation of Myiagra carulea to Tchitrea paradisi is extremely 

 close : there is a near resemblance in general structure ; the same deli- 

 cate blue bill, which loses its colour a few hours after death ; and the 

 lengthened occipital crest of the Paradise Flycatcher is represented by 

 the short velvety occipital tuft of the other, the plumelets of which 

 are similarly erected : even the black pectoral cincture of Myiagra 

 carulea defines the boundary of the black throat and fore-neck of Tchitrea 

 paradisi. Allied to these, again, we have Leucocerca, Sw.f (the Indian 

 species of which are referred to true Rhipidura in XII, 935) : and Rhi- 

 pidura (vera), v. Chelidorhynx, Hodgson, XII, 936, almost equally allied 

 to Leucocerca and Cryptolopha, shews that the last-named genus comes 

 also under the present series. The Indian Cryptolopha is Muse, griseo- 

 capilla, Vieillot, (apud Griffith, An. Kingd. VI, 343,) and was figured 

 by Mr. Swainson as Platyrhynchus ceylonensis, afterwards altered by 

 him to Cryptolopha poiocephala. It is also Muscicapa nitida, var A, of 

 Latham. Its real name will therefore be, I believe, Cr. griseocapilla. 



* The type of this genus is M. plumbea, the male of which= Muscicapa leucogastra, 

 nobis, XIII, 336, and the female is the supposed female of my M. rubecula, loc. cit., 

 which= Myiagra rubeculoides, Vigors and Horsfield : but the supposed male of my M. 

 rubecula would seem to be the female of another species, to which may probably also 

 be referred the Platyrhynchus rvfiventris of Vieillot. That I did not recognise the 

 Myiagra plumbea, was owing to the overcoloured figure of this bird in both editions 

 of Lewin's work. 



f The name Leucocerca is not felicitous, as shewn by Mr. Swainson's own L. lati- 

 cauda, " remarkable for its broad and perfectly black tail." ( Nat. Libr., 'Flycatchers.') 

 The Society has also a species from Java or the Moluccas, with a wholly rufous tail. 

 The common species of Lower Bengal, L.fuscoventris, (Franklin), was subsequently 

 named Muse. ( Rhipidura ) sannio, by M. Sundevall; and Mr. Strickland, in referring 

 the latter appellation to Franklin's species, erroneously adds L. pectoralis, Jerdon, as 

 a synonyme. L. fuscoventris is the ' Broad-tailed Flycatcher' of Latham, and L. 

 albofrontata, the ' White-browed Flycatcher' of that author. 



