4 BIRDS COLLECIED) IN PERAK 
Peninsula for the first time. Its presence was, however, to 
be suspected, as the species occurs in the Eastern Hymalayas 
and again in Java and Sumatra. 
Muscicapula westermanni, Sp. n. 
“No. 115. ¢ ad. Gunong Ulu Batang Padang (4,200 feet). 
“Trides light brown.’’ 
Adult male.—-General colour above blue grey, with a slight 
brown wash on the scapulars and lower back; rump ochreous 
brown; upper tail-coverts a little more refuscent; wing- 
coverts dusky, edged with ochreous brown; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts, and quills blackish, fringed with olive-brown, 
the secondaries rather more rufescent on the base of the 
outer web, tail feathers brown, externally rufous brown ; head 
blue-grey like the back, a little more hoary on the forehead ; 
lores and eyelid white ; ear-coverts and sides of face blue-grey, 
with afew whitish lines on the former; throat white, witha 
slight ashy tinge; remainder of under surface of body white, 
the sides of the breast ashy grey; sides of the body also 
washed with ashy grey ; under fail coverts white ; thighs ashy ; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the edge of “the wing 
blackish; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the 
inner web. Total length 3.7 inches, culmen 0.45, wing 2.2, 
tail 1.55, tarsus 0.55. 
This is a very curious form, recalling the characters of 
several of the other AM/uscicapule. \t may not be the fully 
adult of its species, but I believe it to be so. The reddish 
upper tail-coverts and tail remind one of the female of 7. 
maculata, but the blue-grey upper surface distinguishes it at 
a glance. The female and young male of J. super ciliaris 
have generally an ochreous tinge on the throat which dis- 
tinguish them; but one specimen from Sikhim is white below 
like A. w ester mannt, while the upper surface is brown and 
the shade of blue which is seen on it (it is apparently a young 
male) is not slaty blue, but bright blue as in the adults, 
Terstphone affints (Blyth.). 
Tersiphone afinis, Oates, B. Brit. Burm., 1., p. 261. 
Muscipeta afinis, Hume, Str. F., 1879, p. 58. 
