124 Notices and Descriptions of various New [Feb. 



upon the head ; below yellowish-albescent, the feathers of the fore- 

 neck and breast margined with the hue of the upper-parts ; rump, 

 towards the tail, bright and pure light yellow j the two great ranges of 

 wing-coverts tipped, and the tertiaries externally margined, with 

 white : loral streak and the lower tail-coverts dull white : bill dusky 

 above, below pale; and the legs pale. From Malacca. 



Z. chrysophrys, nobis. Differs from the preceding in its more slen- 

 der and depressed bill ; in having a yellow supercilium continued 

 back to the occiput ; in the white wing-spot not being continued along 

 the edge of the tertiary ; and in the hue of the abdomen passing gra- 

 dually to white from the bright yellow of the throat and breast. In 

 other words, it may be briefly described as black, with yellow rump, 

 supercilium, and under-parts, passing to white on the belly and lower 

 tail-coverts, and a large patch of white upon the wing. Length of the 

 wing three inches. The female I have not seen, nor am I aware of 

 the habitat of the species ; but have some reason to suspect Australia, 

 in which case it will probably bear a prior name. 



A considerable group is formed by the various blue Flycatchers of 

 India and Malasia, minus the Myiagrce (as exemplified by M. cceru- 

 lea), which I have already approximated to Tchitrea (p. 290). At 

 the head of them may be placed 



Niltava, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 650. In these beautiful birds, 

 the Muscicapa structure is much reduced ; the bill being narrow and 

 scarcely flattened, and the rictal bristles, though tolerably long, are very 

 fine and slender. According to Mr. Hodgson, they "never seize on wing/' 

 but their affinities with the following groups are nevertheless obvious. 

 Three species occur in the Himalaya, the two first appearing to be very 

 common at Darjeeling. — 1. N. grandis, nobis, XI, 189 (which Mr. 

 Hodgson would separate by the name Bainopus, but I cannot under- 

 stand upon what characters).— 2. N. sundara, Hodgson. — 3. N. Mac 

 gregorii, (Burton), P. Z. S. 1835, p. 152, v. fuligiventer, Hodgson; 

 which (as Lord A. Hay informs me) is common at Simla. 



Cyanoptila, nobis. I found this group on a Javanese Flycatcher, 

 which is just intermediate (both in form and colouring) to the pre- 

 ceding and following divisions, in neither of which it can be placed ; 

 and it thus illustrates the affinities of Niltava. Its wings, how- 

 ever, are longer than in either, and more pointed, reaching fully 



