292 BIHDS OF BRITISH BUKMAH. 
276. SIPHIA OLIVACEA. 
HUME^S FLYCATCHER. 
Cyornis olivacea, Hume, S. F. y. p. 338 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 229 ; Humcj 
S. F. viii. p. 92. Siphia olivacea, Sharpe, Cat, Bir-ds B. Mus. iv. p. 457. 
Description. — Male and female. The upper plumage greyish brown^ 
tinged with fulvous on the back and rump ; the lores and the sides of 
the head ashy^ the shafts of the ear-coverts whitish ; lower plumage 
whitish^ the breast and the sides o£ the body tinged with ashy ; tail rufous- 
brown_, brighter on the outer webs ; wing-coverts and quills brown_, edged 
with fulvous-brown and tinged with rufous on the outer webs of the quills. 
Bill black ; iris brown ; legs, feet and claws pinkish white. In the 
female the bill is brown. {Davison.) 
Length 5*8 inches, tail 2*5, wing S, tarsus '75, bill from gape '8. The 
female appears to be smaller. 
Hume^s Flycatcher was procured by Mr. Davison in the south of Tenas- 
serim at Bankasoon_, Malewoon and Tenasserim Town. 
In the British Museum are two birds, one from Java and one from 
Borneo, which undoubtedly belong to this species. 
Mr. Davison says, " This species, like its other congeners, keeps to the 
forest or its outskirts, and is usually seen singly. True Flycatchers, they 
perch on commanding twigs, whence they capture passing insects with 
short sharp flights, returning to the same perch. Not unfrequently they 
may be seen flying from branch to branch, evidently not feeding, and as 
they alight lowering their wings, jerking their tails, and uttering their 
peculiar prolonged chir-r-r.^' 
Genus MUSCICAPULA, mi/th. 
277. MUSCICAPULA SUPEHCILIAEIS. 
THE WHITE-BROWED BLUE FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa superciliaris, Jerd Madr. Journ. xi. p. 16. Muscicapula superci- 
liaris, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 470 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S.B. xxxvii. pt. ii. p. 30; Hume^ 
Nests and Eggs, p. 213 Ball, S. F. v. p. 415 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92 ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds B. Mus. iy. p. 204. Erythrosterna acornaus {Hodgs.), Jerd. B. 
Ind. i. p. 483 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1870, p. 320 ; Bl. Sr Wald. B. Burin, p. 103; Hzi?ne 
8r Dav. S. F. vi. p. 233 ; Hmtie S. F. viii. p. 93. 
Description. — Male. The whole upper plumage, lesser and median wing- 
coverts, ear-coverts, cheeks and sides of the neck dull blue ; greater wing- 
