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CATALOGUE. 
Ehipidura ceylonensis, O. B. Ghrmj^ Gen. of Birds, I. 
'p. 259. 
Cryptolopha poiocephala, Swains., Nat. Lib. X. p. 200, 
t. 23. McClelland, P. Z. S. (1839), p. 157. Jerd., 
Madr. Journ. L. S. XI. p. 13. 
Muscicapa nitida, var. A. Lath. Sist. YI. p. 188. 
Grrej-headed Flycatcher. 
Zeed Ftjtki, Beng. Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton. 
A. B. Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
C. d. Calcutta. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
e. f. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
g. Drawing. Assam. Presented by J. McClelland, Esq. 
h. Drawing. From Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton's Collection. 
" The only locality in the more southern part of India, where I 
have met' this curious little bird, is the summit of the Neilgherries, 
in the dense woods of which it is not very uncommon. In the 
northern part of the Deccan, however, it is occasionally to be met 
with, only in the cold season however, in large topes of trees ; and it 
increases in number towards the north, and in the jungly valleys and 
nullahs of the northern ghauts, it is by no means rare, always 
frequenting by preference the deepest thickets. Though not so 
lively as some fly-catchers, it is yet more so than many others. It 
frequently sallies forth from its perch on a twig after passing 
insects, and does not always return to the same branch, and often 
changes its perch, though it remains for some time in the same 
locality. It has a pleasant but feeble chirping note." — (Jerd., Madr. 
Joum. L. S. XI. p. 13.) 
Captain Hutton remarks, " I took a nest of this species on 
18th April, 1848, in a deep and thickly-wooded glen, at an elevation 
of 4,500 feet. It was placed against the moss-covered trunk of a large 
tree, growing by the side of a mountain stream, and was neatly and 
beautifully constructed of green moss, fixed in the shape of a watch- 
pocket at the head of a bed, to the mosses of the tree (with which it 
was completely blended), by numerous threads of spiders' webs. The 
lining was of the finest grass stalks, no thicker than horse-hair, and 
