272 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
and in Yunnan in Western China^ and it is not known to occur elsewhere 
out of the limits o£ British Burmah. 
This pretty Flycatcher arrives in Burmah in October and departs in 
March and April. Its breeding-haunts are not known^ but the birds pro- 
bably retire to some part of China to nest. This species has much of the 
habits of the Willow- Warblers^ searching the leaves of large trees for insects 
and launching itself into the air in pursuit of flies. 
257. CRYPTOLOPHA XANTHOSCHISTA. 
HODGSON^S GREY-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 
Phyllopneuste xanthoschistos, Hodgs. in Grmfs Zool. Misc. p. 82. Abrornis 
xanthoschistos, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 202 ; Hume, JVests and Eggs, p. 370 ; Hume 
and Heyiders. Lah. to Yark. p. 220, pi. xx. f. 2 ; Hume, S. F. i, p, 494 ; Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 106 ; Brooks, S. F. iii. p. 24-5, viii. p. 483 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 102 ; 
Scully, S. F. viii. p. 309. Abrornis albosuperciliaris {BL), apud Jerd. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 202 ; Hume and Henders. Lah. to Yark. pi. xx. f. 1 ; Hume, S. F. i. 
p. 493 ; Brooks, S. F. iii. p. 245 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 245. Cryptolopha xan- 
thoschista, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 398. 
Description. — Male and female. Head^ nape and back dark grey ; wing- 
coverts, rump and tail-coverts olive-yellow,, a paler and indistinct line of 
this colour running over the crown from the bill to the nape ; lores and 
feathers behind the eye dark grey ; a supercilium, cheeks and ear-coverts 
greyish white ; the whole lower plumage bright yellow ; wings and tail dark 
brown, edged with olive-yellow on the outer webs and with the inner webs 
of the two outer pairs of tail-feathers mostly white. 
Upper mandible brownish black ; lower mandible horny yellow ; irides 
blackish brown ; tarsus plumbeous ; toes brownish ; soles yellow ; claws 
dusky. (Scully.) 
Length 4"2 inches, tail 1'8, wing 2*2, tarsus '75, bill from gape '5. 
The female is smaller. 
The amount of grey on the back varies much. Some specimens have 
only the upper back grey, while others have the whole plumage quite down 
to the rump grey, and a specimen from Sikhim has a band of green across 
the back with grey below it. Specimens from the North-west have the 
grey much paler ; but I cannot separate C. albosuperciliaris from C. xantho- 
schista, 
I introduce this bird into my list on the authority of Mr. Blyth, who 
recorded it from Arrakan some years ago. It has not been observed again 
by any of the ornithologists who have more recently been working in 
Burmah. 
It inhabits the Himalayas from Assam up to the North-west Provinces 
