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256. CRYPTOLOPHA TEPHROCEPHALA. 
ANDERSON^S FLYCATCHER. 
Culicipeta tephrocephalus, Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 213 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 140 ; 
Bl. Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 107 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 626; pi. 50. Crypto- 
lopha tephroceplialus, David et Oust. Ois. Clmie, p. 272 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. 
vi. p. 358 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 102. Cryptolopha afianis (Hodffs.), Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 398 (part.). 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^, lores, cheeks_, feathers above 
the eyes^ the ear-coverts, sides of the neck, back, rump and upper tail- 
coverts yellowish green ; a broad supercilium and a central coronal streak 
slate-coloured; the interspaces black; wing-coverts brown, broadly margined 
with yellowish green ; feathers on the edges of the eyelids and the whole 
lower plumage with the under wing-coverts bright yellow ; the four central 
pairs of tail-feathers brown on the inner webs and yellowish green on the 
outer ; the two outer pairs slaty green, the inner webs with a patch of 
white occupying about two thirds of the web ; primaries and secondaries 
brown, the outer webs broadly margined with yellowish green ; tertiaries 
wholly yellowish green, duller than the back. 
Upper mandible brown, lower one yellow ; mouth yellow ; legs yellow j 
claws yellowish horn- colour. 
Length 4*25 inches, tail 1'8, wing 2*2, tarsus '75, bill from gape "65. The 
female is rather smaller. 
This species is very similar to C. bur Hi from India, but it has a very 
much larger bill ; C. burkii, moreover, altogether wants the grey streaks on 
the head. 
I cannot agree with Mr. Sharpe that this species is identical with Ahror- 
This affinis, Hodgs. ( Jerd. B. I. ii. p. 204). In A. affinis the bill is very small, 
quite as small as in C. bw^kii ; the feathers on the eyelids are white and 
not yellow ; the ear-coverts and sides of the neck are deep grey and the 
lower plumage is a duller, more oily, yellow. 
Anderson's Flycatcher is very abundant throughout Pegu in the winter 
months. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay obtained it in the Karin hills at 3500 
feet elevation. Mr. Davison states that it is sparingly distributed in Tenas- 
serim, probably in the cold season only, throughout the northern and 
central portions of the Division, and not apparently ascending the hills 
above 2500 feet elevation. Capt. Bingham found it in the Thoungyeen 
valley. 
Mr. Blyth gives the allied species C. burkii from the Arrakan hills. He 
probably did not consider the two species really distinct. C teplirocephala 
is most likely to occur in Arrakan, and not C. burkii. I have accordingly 
omitted the latter till there is further evidence of its occurrence in Burmah. 
Anderson's Flycatcher was discovered in the hills to the east of Bhamo 
