1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 293 



Teh. leucogaster, (Swainson), Nat. Libr., ' Flycatchers/ — is an alleged 

 species founded on (apparently) a female specimen, which was in the col- 

 lection formed in India by the Countess of Dalhousie. It would seem to 

 agree with Teh. affinis (in the rufous dress), except in its larger size, 

 measuring " no less than five inches from the tip of the bill to the 

 vent," and in having the posterior crest-feathers long and narrow, as in 

 Teh. paradisi. If a true species, the form of the tail would indicate that 

 the central caudal feathers of the male are elongated ; which is not the 

 case in all the genus, for instance in the small Teh. borbonica of the Isle 

 of France, the general structure of which comes very close upon 

 Myiagra. 



Teh. atrocaudata, (Eyton), P. Z. S. 1839, p. 102. " Toto corpore pur- 

 pureo-atro, sed pectore imo abdomineque albis. Long. tot. 9 uncias." 

 Hab. Malacca. Lord Arthur Hay possesses what I take to be a mature 

 female of this species, having the head and neck glossy black, the rest 

 of the upper parts beautiful glossy maronne, or deep chesnut-bay, with 

 a very strong maronne gloss, — and of the lower-parts dark ash-colour, 

 passing to white towards the vent and lower tail- coverts, which last 

 are tinged with chesnut: shafts of the tertiaries black (as in Teh. 

 affinis) ; and the primaries and secondaries dusky-black, margined ex- 

 ternally with dark rufous ; axillaries white : the central caudal feathers 

 are scarcely developed beyond the rest ; and the crest is still shorter 

 than in Teh. affinis. Young females are scarcely distinguishable from 

 those of Teh. affinis ; but have a shorter crest, the middle tail-feathers 

 about equal with the rest on either side, and more or less of the beau- 

 tiful maronne gloss is generally perceptible. In this state of plumage, 

 they constitute Muscipeta atriceps, nobis, XI, 203, 790. 



Teh. princeps, (Tern.), p. c. 584. This superb species inhabits China 

 and Japan. Lord Arthur Hay has received it from Hong Kong* : and 

 I should acknowledge that I have been indebted to his lordship for the 

 loan of some specimens of Teh. affinis, #c, which first enabled me to 

 come to some understanding of these different species. 



In immediate proximity to Tchitrea, we have the new genus Philen- 



toma of Eyton, of which two species inhabit the Malayan peninsula : 



* Muscipeta atrocaudata, Eyton?, apud Lord A. Hay, Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, 

 159, His lordship, however, does not agree with me in the above identification of his 

 specimen with Teh. princeps. Perhaps Teh. atrocaudata may, indeed, yet prove to 

 be no other than Teh. princeps* 



