1846] or Little Known Species of Birds. 305 



four inches and a half : the male of T. sylvicola having the head dark ash- 

 colour, and that of T. pelvica light grey ; an invariable distinction. 



4. T. pondiceriana, (Gm.) : Lanius heroula, Gray ; L. muscipetoides, 

 Franklin ; L. griseus, Tickell ; L. sordidus, Lesson ; Muscicapa philippensis 

 of India, Latham ; Tephr. superciliosus, Swainson ; probably Tenthaca 

 leucurus, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 447. A very common Indian 

 bird and generally diffused. 



5. T. grisola, nobis, XII, 180 (bis). I killed an adult female of 

 this bird with the same shot that brought down a young one of the pre- 

 ceding species, and I have never since met with it here : but the Society 

 has recently received an undoubted specimen from Java, and another 

 from Penang, so that the species has probably been named by M. Tem- 

 minck. 



Hemipus, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 203. This genus 

 is founded on a near affine to the Muscicapa picata, (Sykes) : but 

 a more typically characteristic species is 



1 . H. obscurus ; Muscicapa obscura, Horsfield : M . hirundinaceus, 

 Reinwardt ; Tephr odornis hirundinaceus, Swainson. Common in the 

 Malay countries. This bird was referred to Tephrodornis by Mr. 

 Swainson, and subsequently by Mr. Strickland; and there can be no 

 doubt of its affinity for that group ; but its generic relationship is with 

 H. picatus and H. capitalis. I observe that different specimens of this 

 bird vary remarkably in length of bill ; thus, of two males before me, one 

 has the bill fully a fourth longer than that of the other ; but interme- 

 diate specimens prove their identity, and there is not the slightest differ- 

 ence in other respects. In the short-billed specimen, that organ is in 

 form and size absolutely similar to that of the larger-billed examples of 

 the Indian species. 



2. H. picata, (Sykes): Muscicapa tyrannides, Tickell, II, 574; Muse, 

 hirundinacea of Jerdon's list.* Common in the hilly regions of Central 

 and Southern India, and in Arracan. 



3. H. capitalis, (M'Clelland,) P. Z. S. 1839, p. 157: H. pictecolor, 

 Hodgson. f Very closely allied to the last (indeed I am not satisfied 



* Mr. Jerdon suggests that Muse, variegata, Auct, is perhaps the female of this 

 bird. — A/, maculata, Tickell, Mr. Strickland suspects to be the European M. atrica- 

 pitta (v. luctuosa, Tern.), pertaining to another group of Flycatchers. 



f Dr. McClelland's coloured figure (unpublished) of his Muse, capitalis is decided- 

 ly Mr. Hodgson's bird, not very well represented. 



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