120 Notices and Descriptions of various New [Feb. 



mon at Darjeeling, and the latter I have not yet seen. H. fuliginosa 

 has the wing two inches and three-quarters long, and tail an inch and 

 three-quarters. Colour plain fuliginous-brown above, paler below, 

 albescent towards the vent and lower tail-coverts, and slightly on the 

 throat: bill blackish above, the base of the lower mandible yellow; 

 and feet brown. Young speckled with pale yellowish-brown, like a 

 young Robin.* 



Butalis, Boie, founded on the European Muscicapa grisola . This 

 is another good genus, the species of which are distinguished by their 

 plain olive or greyish colouring. The beak is more or less elongated 

 and flattened, but in the Indian species is generally somewhat larger 

 than in B. grisola : the feet are small and feeble; and the wings reach 

 half-way down the tail, having their first primary short, the third and 

 fourth sub-equal, and the second generally shorter than the fifth. Tail 

 of mean length. All have the larger wing-feathers margined with 

 pale buff externally. 



1. B. terricolor, Hodgson, n. s. Plain uniform earthy-brown above, 

 and whitish-brown below : the upper mandible dark, and the lower 

 whitish except at its extreme tip: legs brown. Length about five inches 

 and a half, of wing two and three-quarters, and tail two inches ; bill to 

 gape eleven-sixteenths, and tarse half an inch. The beak of this species 

 is longer, broader, and also flatter, than in B. grisola. From Nepal. 



2. B. rufescens, Jerdon, n. s. Very similar to the last, but distin- 

 guished by its general rufous tinge, and especially by its white legs 

 and claws. Colour olive-brown above, tinged with rufous on the back, 

 and more deeply so on the upper tail-coverts and margins of the 

 caudal feathers; wing-coverts and tertiaries also margined with pale 

 rufous: throat and fore-neck white, as also the anterior part of the 

 lores, but a longitudinal patch of brown on each side of the throat; the 

 breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts, brown, paler on the tail, and 

 the belly whitish. Beak dark above, and yellowish- white below. 

 Dimensions as in last. From S. India. 



3. B. ruficauda, (Swainson), Nat. Libr., ' Flycatchers,' Appendix. 

 The beak of this species more resembles that of B. grisola, but is 



* A species of this genus (apparently) is figured in one of Dr. McClelland's draw- 

 ings of Assamese birds. Colour brown, paler below, whitish towards throat and vent: 

 the secondaries and tertiaries margined with white, surrounding the tips of the latter. 



