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CATALOGUE. 
Leucocerca albofrontata, Jerd., Mad/r. Journ. L. S. XI. 
p. 12 ; III Ind. Orn. t. 2. Mi/th, Cat. B, Mus. A. 
S. Beng. p. 206. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 324. 
Muscicapa, Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton, 3IS. II. p. 67. 
White-browed riycatcber, Lath. Hist. Y. p. 111. 
DuMCHiTRi (' Spread-tail'), Beng., Ha^nilton. 
Mtjchttehaeea (' Musquito-catcber '), Hind., Jerd. 
Chukdeel, Sabarunpore, Boyle. 
Manatee (' Washerman '), Malaj^alam, Jerd. 
Dashaeee Pitta, Telugu, Jerd. 
A. Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
b. Bengal. Presented by Dr. Falconer. 
" This pretty and lively fly-catcher is to be met with in well-wooded 
districts, as open forest jungle, gardens, and avenues of large trees. 
In the bare Carnatic it is only met with now and then in large topes 
or groves of trees and extensive gardens, and still more sparingly in 
some of the patches of low jungle found in the more hilly portions of 
the south of the Peninsula. Towards the more northern parts, 
however, it is much more common and diffused, and may be seen in 
every clump of trees or garden. In its habits it appears to be the 
most active and restless of the whole family, continually flitting 
about from branch to branch, snapping up an insect on the wing every 
now and then, and raising its outspread tail and lowering its wings, 
whenever it reseats itself on a twig. It hardly ever flies beyond a 
few feet after an insect, and seldom returns to the same perch, 
traversing in succession most of the branches of the tree, and not 
resting during even the heat of the day. I have usually seen it 
solitary, occasionall}^ two or three in company. I have several 
times seen it alight on the ground, and on one or two occasions 
observed it seated on the back of a cow, and pursuing insects from 
this unusual '{)erch. Its chief food consists of mosquitoes and other 
small dipterous insects ; whence its Hindustani name." 
" It has a pleasing little song, which it warbles forth every now 
and then, consisting of several notes following each other in a 
regularly descending scale." — (Jerd., lU. Ind. Orn.) 
190. RHIPIDURA MOTACILLOIDES, Vigors et Horsf. 
Khipidura motacilloides, Vigors et Horsf., Trans. Linn. 
Soc. XV. p. 248. Gottld, B. Aust. II. t. 86. G. 
