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up on a 'bi'ancli ag'ainst the trunk, 1 have known it in a medlar 
(a tree with a small trunk), but it is usually in :i> " chil " 
(to rhyme with teal). This is, T believe, the Scottish Long- 
neodled Pine, the branches are usually horizontal and have 
no needles except at the tips, yet it is very easy to miss 
the cup one knows must be thei'c. Length of bird about 4.5 
inches, a true Flycatcher. 
The Okanoe-gokoettki") Flycatcher (Siphia stroph- 
iafa). This is a charming bird, feeding largely on the ground, 
which fact may account for the ready way it takes to captivity. 
I put it down as partly a berry eat(n-, at any rate in captivity 
it is quitf fond of milk-sop and wild medlar, a fruit most of 
our winter and early spring visitors are partial to. The latter 
arc lucky if th(>y find any left for them. This bird arrives 
abcut the ^end of January and leaves us for its breeding grounds 
about the end of March. I have not met with it in C'hamba 
up to 9,000, but of course it may 1>reed lower down or it 
may go right away. Gates mentions it being found in sum- 
mer in Assam at 12,000. Nothing apparently is known a- 
bout its nidification. 
Though not of brilliant plumage even my wife could 
not call it a sjjarrow-bird. General colour: sides of face and 
threat black; forehead and short eyebrow white, patch on 
throat orange, breast slaty, other under-parts white. Tail 
blackish, all the feathers except the middle pair with a white 
patch increasing in size on outer feathers. The hen has the 
orange; patch smaller and has less white on the face, the 
black on the throat and face is replaced by slaty. Length 5.5 
inches. 
The Eed-Bebasted Fiaxatcueu (Siphia parvn or 
lijipenjthra) i>asses through in early autunm appearing again 
at the end of March, leaving at the end of April or begmning 
of May. It is not so common as the last species and is not 
so much of a ground feeder. The only one I kept did very 
well and looked very nice in the aviary; its best feature, the 
large amount of white on the frequently expanded tail, would 
be missed a good deal in a cage. With other birds .1 let it 
go during one of my periods of shortness of live food. I 
had just caught a Speckled Piculet and a Little Forktail, both 
of which take some catching, and both long-desired. The 
