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fulvous on the central tips ; the same pale colour also have all the 

 outer edgings of the wing feathers, the tips of the tertiaries and the 

 wing coverts, the latter being somewhat rufous. Below, the white 

 is dashed all over with dusky, the feathers being edged dark ; tail 

 rufous, as in the old bird. This kind of spotted colouring of the young 

 birds is characteristic for nearly all Muscicapid^j. 



I found this species abundant among the apricot trees near Chini 

 and Pangi, in Kunawar, between 9,000 and 10,000 feet. The young 

 birds were full grown at the beginning of August. In habits it 

 resembles other fly-catchers, generally sitting on a low branch of a tree 

 and occasionally darting after the passing insects. I have never seen 

 it ascending very high in the air, as for instance Hem. fuliginosum 

 usually does. It is very probable that the species is also found further 

 to the east, in Tibet, returning during the winter to the low hills or to 

 the plains. The only other place, where I procured on the 15th June, 

 1865, a specimen of it, was at Kangsar in North Lahul, at an elevation 



of 11,000 feet. 



The species, which Dr. J e r d o n (loc. cit. p. 468) mentions under 

 the name of Muse, rubecula, Swains., as being probably identical 

 with G. ruficauda must be altogether a different bird ; for among a 

 number of more than 20 specimens of C. ruficauda, of both sexes and 

 of young birds, there is not one which has a trace of orange on the 

 throat and breast, or any blue colouring above. On account of the 

 want of the last colour, this species may be considered as rather an 

 abnormal form of the genus, identicating moreover a peculiar type of 

 Muscicapid^:. 



86. Muscicapula SUPERCILIARIS, J e r d., (I. 470). 

 Old male ; above the sides of the head and of the breast are Prussian 

 blue, brighter on the head ; the feathers on the rump are on the basal 

 half grey, then white and tipped blue : the shafts of the same are white, 

 while those of the back and head are grey. Wings and tail are black- 

 ish, the feathers externally edged blue ; tail-feathers white on their 

 basal half, except the two central ones which are in their entire length 

 black. A white superciliar strip extends towards the nape ; lores deep 

 bluish black ; moustaches black ; front edges of the wings and the 

 inner margins of their feathers more or less albescent. Below, on the 

 ^hin, throat, middle of breast, belly and lower tail-coverts pure white 



