294 ^ BIRDS OF BRITISH BUBMAH. 
278. MUSCICAPULA MACULATA. 
THE LITTLE PIED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa maculata, Tich. J. A. S. B. ii. p. 574. Erythrosterna pusilla, 
Bl J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 813; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 483; Brooks, S. F. v. p. 471. 
Erythrosterna maculata, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 483 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 103 ; 
Brooks, S. F. iii. pp. 236, 277, viii. p. 470 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 93. Musci- 
capula maculata, SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 207. 
Description. — Male, The whole upper plumage, including the lores, 
cheeks_, ear-coverts and sides of the neck, black ; a very broad superciliary 
streak, reaching to the nape and widening posteriorly, white ; the whole 
lower plumage white ; the wings black, the later secondaries edged with 
white on the outer webs ; the remaining secondaries and all the primaries 
with an interior lining of white; the greater upper wing-coverts white, 
forming a broad band across the wing ; tail black, the basal two thirds of 
all the feathers except the central pair white ; the bases of the rump-feathers 
white, showing through when the plumage is disarranged. 
ThQ female has the upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts olive-brown, 
tinged with rufous ; upper tail-coverts ferruginous ; greater wing-coverts 
and quills brown, margined with pale rufous-brown ; lores and sides of the 
head fulvescent brown, the shafts of the ear-coverts paler ; lower plumage 
white, tinged with brown on the flanks and breast ; tail dark brown, nar- 
rowly margined with rufous-brown ; no white at the base of the tail. 
Bill black ; mouth whitish ; iris light brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs 
and claws brown. 
Length 4*4 inches, tail I'75, wing 2*4, tarsus '6, bill from gape '55. 
The Little Pied Flycatcher is rarely found in Burmah. I procured one 
specimen at Kyeikpadein, near Pegu, in the cold weather ; Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay got it in Karennee from 3000 to 5000 feet elevation; Mr. Davison 
near the summit of Mooleyit in Tenasserim ; and Capt. Bingham in the 
Meplay valley, also in Tenasserim. Mr. Blyth gives it from Arrakan. 
It extends on the north into India and on the south to Java and 
Sumatra. 
