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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Bill and legs black ; iris brown ; mouth flesb-colour ; claws black. 
Length 6*1 inches^ tail 2*8^ wing 3*2, tarsus '65, bill from gape '7. The 
female is of much the same size. 
The Verditer Flycatcher is a_ winter visitor to the province^ and appears 
to be common and generally distributed. Mr. Blyth received it from 
Arrakan. I found it common near Pegu^ in some years more abundant 
than in others. Mr. Blanford got it at Bassein^ and Dr. Armstrong at 
Syriam and Elephant Point. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay states that it 
frequents rocky hills in Karennee from 700 to 5000 feet elevation. Mr. 
Davison found it generally distributed during the cold season alike in the 
hills and plains throughout Tenasserim ; and Capt. Bingham observed it 
in the Thoungyeen valley from October to April. 
It extends into the Malay peninsula and is found in Cochin China and 
South China. It is spread over the Indo-Burmese countries^ and ranges 
over the whole peoinsula of India^ retiring in the summer to the Himalayas 
to breed. 
It appears to have the usual habits of the typical Flycatchers. The 
nest_, a cup-shaped structure of moss, is placed sometimes under a small 
wooden bridge and sometimes in a hole in a stump. Occasionally it is 
placed on a rafter or under the eaves of a house. The eggs^ four in 
number, are white speckled with red. 
Genus POLIOMYIAS, Sharpe. 
271. POLIOMYIAS HODGSONL 
THE RUSTY-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 
Siphia erythaca, Jercl Sf Bl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 201 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 480 ; Hume, 
F. ii. p. 458 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 103 ; Hume, S. F. v. p. 137 ; Hume 
^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 233 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 93. Siphia hodgsoni, Ferr. N. 
Arch. Mus. vi. Bull, p. 34, vii. p. 29 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 115. Polio- 
myias hodgsoni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 203. 
Description. — Male. The whole upper plumage dull cyaneous; ear- 
coverts the same ; lores^ feathers uDder the eye^ the cheeks and upper 
tail-coverts black ; wing-coverts brown, edged with cyaneous ; quills blacky 
edged with brown ; tail blacky the bases of all but the two central feathers 
white at the base ; sides of the neck and a patch on either side the breast 
like the back; chin, throat, breast and abdomen rich orange; lower 
abdomen, vent, flanks and under tail-coverts pale ferruginous. 
