1847.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 127 



rufous-brown on the wings; tail dull ferruginous: under-parts light 

 brown, inclining to albescent on the throat and belly: bill dusky, and 

 legs brown. Young spotted above like a young Robin, or Stonechat, &c. 

 Hab. Nepal. 



6. S. signata ; Leiothrix signata, McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. 

 S. 1839, p. 162, v. Dimorpha* (alias Siphia) auricularis, (Hodgson), 

 J. A. S. XII, 240. Himalaya, Assam. 



7. S. moniliger, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. J 845, p. 197- 

 C Non vidi.J 



Muscicapula, nobis, XII, 939. This comprises— 

 1. M. sapphira, nobis. — 2. M. super ciliar is, (Jerdon), v. Dimorpha 

 albogularis, nobis, XI, 190: Lucknow Flycatcher and Azure Warbler, 

 Latham. — 3 .M. hyperythra, nobis, XI, 885, altered from supercilL 

 arts, nobis, XI, 190, and again by an oversight to rubecula, XII, 940 ; 

 Dimorpha rubrocyanea, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 197- — 4. 

 M. melanoleuca, (Hodg.), a name which will probably not stand, as 

 the Society has received the identical species from Java, from which 

 part M. Temminck also will probably have received and named it.t— 

 In M. sapphira, the affinity to Niltava, Cyanoptila, &c, is still 

 obvious in the colouring ; and in Siphia signata, the general brown 

 plumage is relieved by a patch of ultramarine-blue on each side of the 

 neck, as in restricted Niltava, (or the Neel-touws of the Nepalese.) 

 M. melanoleuca, as already remarked (XVl£ 306), seems allied to 

 Hemipus, Hodgson. 



5. M. acornaus, (Hodgson); Muse, poonensis apud nos, XI, 458. 

 Length four inches and three- eighths, by six inches and three-quarters ; 

 of wing two and three-sixteenths to two and three-eighths; and of 

 tail an inch and a half to one and three-quarters : bill to gape nine- 

 sixteenths of an inch; and tarse somewhat more. Colour greyish- 

 olive above, fulvescent on the rump, and rufescent-brown on the upper 

 tail-coverts and margining the base of the tail-feathers; one Nepalese 

 specimen has the upper tail-coverts ashy: lower-parts albescent-grey- 

 ish, slightly tinged with fulvous in some specimens; the throat, mid- 

 dle of belly, and lower tail-coverts, dull white: axillaries pure white: 



* Dimorpha is the name of an old genus in Botany. 



f It is not rare in the Midnapore jungles; and Capt. Phayre had sent it from 

 Arracan. 



