176 FLYCATCHER. 



Inhabits Ceylon.— The above is Linnaeus's description, and although 

 it does not precisely coincide with the Flammeous Species, it is not 

 improbably a Variety of it. 



Among the drawings of General Hardwicke is a nest and eggs, 

 said to be of the Cinnamon Flycatcher ; the nest seems composed 

 chiefly of whitish lichen, with a round opening at top, lined and 

 surrounded with pale reddish hairs ; it is attached to the fork of a 

 branch, tapers conically downwards to half an inch, and is, from 

 top to bottom, about four inches : the eggs four in number, pale 

 reddish white, thickly marked with small red specks at the large 

 end, and very sparingly elsewhere ; the nest flat, and quite open at 

 top; eggs three quarters of an inch long. 



30.— CAWNPORE FLYCATCHER.— Pl. xcviii.* 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill broad at the base, with a 

 few short hairs, and black ; head, neck behind, upper parts of the 

 back, and wings, for the greatest part, black; lower part of the back, 

 and breast orange red, the rest of the under parts white ; down the 

 middle of the wing a streak of white; the second coverts have the 

 outer webs white, the inner black; tail very cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers two inches and three quarters long, the outer one inch 

 and three quarters; all but the two middle more or less white half 

 way to the ends, the exterior wholly white; legs slender, black. 



Inhabits India, found at Cawnpore in July, there called Sokeea 

 Soleil. — Gen. Hardwicke. 



31— SUPERCILIOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa superciliosa, Lid. Orn. ii. 447. Gm. Lin. i. 944. « 



Supercilious Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 341. Shaw's Zool. x. 386. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill black ; upper parts of the 

 body cinereous ; before the eye black, passing above it in a slender 



