270 BIHDS OF BEITISH BUEMAH. 
Genus CRYPTOLOPHA, Swcdns. 
255. CEYPTOLOPHA CANTATOR. 
THE LESSER BLACK-BUOWED FLYCATCHER. 
Motacilla cantator, Tick. J. A. S. B. ii. p. 576. Culicipeta cantator, Jerd. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 200. Abrornis cantator, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 370 ; id. 8. F. 
viii. p. 102. Abrornis chrysea, Wold, in Bl. B. Burm. p. 106 ; Hume, S. F. 
V. p. 55 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 359 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 102. Cr5rtolopha 
cantatrix, 8hmye, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 397. 
Description. — Male and female. Two broad streaks running from the bill 
to the nape^ enclosing between them an olive-yellow coronal streak_, dark 
brown or blackish ; lores, a distinct supercilium^ cheeks_, ear-coverts^ sides 
o£ neck^ chin_, throat and breast bright yellow ; abdomen and flanks silky 
white ; vent and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; upper plumage olive- 
yellow j wings dark brown, edged exteriorly with olive-yellow ; wing-coverts 
olive-yellow, the greater series tipped with yellow, forming a wing-bar ; tail 
brown, the feathers edged exteriorly with olive-yellow and interiorly near 
the tip, except on the two centre pairs, with very pale yellow. 
Maxilla brown ; mandible pale straw-colour ( Wardlaw Ramsay) : legs 
fleshy yellow; irides hazel {Jerdon). 
Length 4 inches, tail 1*8^ wing tarsus '65, bill from gape '55. 
The type of C. chrysea from Karennee differs from C. cantator from 
Sikhim in its smaller size, the wing being 2 inches and the tail 1*6. In 
other respects it is identical with it, and I have not thought it worthy of 
separation from that species. I have not been able to examine C.fulvi- 
venter, Godw.-Aust., which is probably the same species as the present. 
The Lesser Black-browed Flycatcher was obtained in the Karin hills, 
near Tonghoo, by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay. It has not been observed else- 
where in British Burmah. 
It occurs in the Himalayas from Assam to Nipal, in Bengal and in 
Central India. 
Tickell states that it frequents trees in the thickest parts of the jungle^ 
and has a loud and incessant note, ' pio-pio.' 
