324 A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. [No. 4, 



N. H., 1845, XVI, p. 229. — Muscicapa pectoralis, A. Hay, Madras 

 Journal, XIII, pt. II, 1845, p. 161. 



$ . Above and lower breast, vent and under tail coverts light 

 cinerous blue, forehead, lores, a very narrow superciliary stripe, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts and chin, inner webs of wing feathers, the same 

 of the tail feathers, — with the exception of the two central ones, — 

 black ; throat and front of breast extending somewhat to the sides 

 deep castany brown ; wing 3£ " ; tail 3£" ; bill at front T \", from 

 gape •£■" ; tarsus \%" ; rictal bristles nearly f". 



9 . Uniform ashy blue, slightly deeper than the male, forehead, 

 chin and throat somewhat blackish ; wing 3-}" ; the other measure- 

 ments the same as in <? . 



Temminck described the species from Timor and Java. It is 

 common about Malacca, and in the Wellesley Province. 



75. Myiagua aztjkea, B o d d. 

 J e r d o n, B. Ind., I, p. 450. 



Specimens from the Wellesley Province exactly correspond in 

 size with the Indian bird. The rictal and narine bristles and the 

 short feathers in front on the upper and lower mandibles are pure 

 black in the S , most of the wing feathers and the outer webs of 

 the tail feathers are indistinctly barred across with a duller color 

 than that of the general plumage. 



Fam. SYLY1IBJE. 



76. Copsyciius mind anen sis, Gr m e 1. 

 Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. XV. 



This is so closely allied to the Indian C. saularis, that the pro- 

 priety of a separate appellation seems doubtful. I shot a pair near 

 the coast of Wellesley Province, just opposite Penang. The male 

 is somewhat larger than the female, in the former the wing is 3£" 

 and the tail 3£", in the latter wing 3J" and tail 3£"; both these 

 measurements are somewhat less than those given by Jerdonof 

 C. saularis ; but the length of the bill is in both the same. The $ 

 has the front edge of the wing partially white and the 2 spotted 

 with grey ; the back in the $ is a little darker than usually seen 

 in Bengal saularis, but the throat and breast are equally ashy and 



