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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus CULICICAPA, Swinlioe. 
259. CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS, 
THE GREY-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 
Platyrhynchus ceylonensis, Swains. Zool. III. ser. 1, pi. xiii. Cryptolopha 
cinereocapilla ( Vieill), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 455. Myialestes cinereocapilla 
(VieilL), Hume, Nests mid Eggs, p. 205; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 132. 
Culicicapa ceylonensis, Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 134 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92 ; 
Scidly, S. F. yiii. p. 275 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 410; Sharjje, Cat. Birds B. 
Mus. iv. p. 369. Culicicapa cinereocapilla, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 104. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head, neck and breast ashy, 
darker on the crown, the feathers of which are centred with darker ; 
remainder of the lo¥/er plumage bright yellow ; under wing-coverts pale 
yellow ; the lores and the edges of the eyelids whitish ; back, rump, sca- 
pulars and upper tail-coverts greenish yellow, brightest on the rump ; 
wings and their coverts dark brown, the outer webs of all the feathers 
except the first two primaries edged with bright greenish yellow ; the lesser 
wing-coverts more broadly edged with the same on both webs ; tail- 
feathers dark brown, the outer webs of all but the outer pair broadly edged 
with greenish yellow. 
The young appear to be like the adult. 
Iris dark hazel ; bill brown, paler at the base and gape ; mouth yellow ; 
legs yellowish brown ; claws horn- colour. 
Length 5 inches, tail 2*2, wing 2'4, tarsus '53, bill from gape '55. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Grey-headed Flycatcher, according to Mr. Blyth, has been found in 
Arrakan. I have found it spread over the whole of Pegu as a winter visitor, 
common in Lower Pegu both in the hills and plains ; in Upper Pegu con- 
fined apparently to the hills alone. Dr. Armstrong remarks that it is rare 
near Rangoon. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay got it in the Tsankoo hills in 
Karennee at an elevation of 3500 feet. Mr. Davison states that it is 
generally distributed throughout the whole of Tenasserim, and Capt. 
Bingham found it abundant in the Thoungyeen valley. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula to Java and Borneo. To the north 
it is found throughout the Indo-Burmese countries, and it ranges over the 
whole peninsula of India. It breeds in the Himalayas and in the Nilghiris 
at considerable elevations. 
This species is found a good deal in mango-groves and other places 
where the trees are large and dense. It flits about very actively, catching 
insects on the wing. 
The nest is a small cup made of moss, and is placed against the face of 
a rock or the trunk of a tree. The eggs, three in number, are yellowish 
white speckled with various shades of brown. 
