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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
249. PHILENTOMA PYRRHOPTERUM. 
THE CHESTNUT- WINGED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa pyrrhoptera, Temm. PI. Col. 596. Philentoma castaneum, Eyton, 
A7m. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, xvi. p. 229. Philentoma pyrrhopterum, Salvad. 
Ucc. Born. p. 138 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 223 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92 j 
Shai'pe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 366. 
Description. — Male. The whole head and neck, the breast_, back and 
lesser wing-coverts indigo-blue ; lower back and rump rufescent grey ; 
upper tail-coverts, the tail, a portion o£ the outer webs of the scapulars, 
the whole of the tertiaries and the greater portion of the outer webs of the 
secondaries bright chestnut ; remainder of the quills dark brown, the outer 
webs of the primaries margined with reddish grey ; primary-coverts blue 
centred with blackish ; greater wing-coverts chestnut ; lower plumage pale 
buff, becoming paler on the vent and under tail-coverts. 
The female has the forehead, crown, nape and sides of the head greenish 
brown; the back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts and rump rufous-grey; 
the lower plumage pale chestnut- buff ; the wings and tail as in the male. 
In the males the legs, feet and claws were pale purplish blue ; bill 
black ; irides crimson. In an adult female the legs, feet and claws were 
plumbeous olive ; the upper mandible pale horny brown ; the lower man- 
dible fleshy white ; iris dull red. In a younger female the legs and feet 
were pale horny red and the iris pale red, speckled with white. {Davison.) 
Length 7 inches, tail 2*8, wing 3*2, tarsus "65, bill from gape '9. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Chestnut-winged Flycatcher occurs in the extreme south of Tenas- 
serim, where it was observed by Mr. Davison at Malewoon, Bankasoon 
and Laynah. Subsequently it was procured at the foot of Nwalabo 
mountain. It is probably a constant resident. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo, and Dr. 
Tiraud records it from Cochin China. 
Mr. Davison remarks that the habits of this species are similar to those 
of P. velatum, but its note more resembles that of Hypothymis azurea. It 
is a true Flycatcher, not at all wary or sliy, catching its food entirely on 
the wing and never descending to the ground. 
