11440 



of the Peninsula of India, 



171 



Length nearly" 6 inches ; wing 3 ; tail 2 ; tarsus rather 

 more than 1 ; bill at front ^ ; at gape & . 



I have only seen this pretty little Redstart very rarely in 

 thick and tangled underwood on the Neilgherries. It has a 

 single low clucking note, like that of some of the Stonechats. 

 Its colours are very similar to those of Musicapa bangamas. 



No. 154, bis. — Musicapa rubicola — Swains? — Robin Fly- 

 catcher. 



I lately procured on the Coonoor Ghaut of the Neilgher- 

 ries, a Flycatcher, which, notwithstanding some slight differ- 

 ences, I am strongly inclined to consider as the e Robin 

 Flycatcher,' described by Swainson in his beautiful volume 

 on Flycatchers in the Naturalists' Library. 



My bird has the head and neck of a greenish cinereous 

 tinge, the back inclining to olive-brown, and the upper tail 

 coverts and tail of a cinnamon brown hue ; throat and breast 

 orange ; abdomen and under tail coverts white ; bill black ; 

 legs pale whitish fleshy. 



Length 6j inches ; wing 3 ; tail 2 ~ V tarsus nearly ~ ; bill 

 at front rather more than f 0 ; at gape ~ • Irides hazel brown. 



I may remark that one or two of the feathers of the fore- 

 head are slightly tinged with pale blue. 



173, bis. — Spermestes. — New species — variety of S. Leuco- 

 nota ? 



I have lately procured a specimen of a small Finch which 

 I think can hardly be a young state or variety of S, leuconota 

 and I know not if it has been described. 



Descr. — Head, neck and back brown ; the shafts of the 

 feathers light ; upper tail coverts deep-brown ; the feathers 

 tipped with glistening yellow (as in S. nisoria) ; wings and 

 tail dark brown; face, forehead, throat and breast deep 



