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inmfrajjkdged tbe Wk, ™g», ..d toil .to d».lnnl-tod, tt. toor .eb. .f the ,.111. dusky, the head cre.to»d 
hind ick Issv black and the chin and throat dark iron-grey, almost black on the chin, and blending into the pale 
grey orL chSt ^ which changes into greyish white on the lower parts. The female has the throat 
paler than the male. 
Chm^ge of plumage. At a certain age, and at a season of the year varying in Ceylon 
male birds change by an alteration in the colour of the u^sLS-srela of black simultaneously appear. 
the quills, scapulars, and rectrices changes or fades into white, -i iv nn/l nt the bodv- feathers I have 
Th,’ „.puh.^ ...d U.U.II, ch...g. dtok .ud ^ “to tSf'o’to »h.to 
generally noticed that the upper tail-ooverts are the first to fade. While this g g t .pper-siirface 
I have b^n able to gather from all the specimens that I have examined, almost f 
feathers have changed) the grey breast just beneath the black throat turns whi e. ^ 
with a pure white chest and only one white feather (in the scapulars) on the upper primaries, 
of long tailed chestnut examples in the national collection wilE various white feathers among the primaiies, 
secondaries, scapulars, and rectrices, and all with chests pure white. 
06,. Hr. Sh.,p. totorf., to hi. atolpsus, th.t South-I.di.n .nd Cuytou... tod bird, h.ve “f 
thoto from North.™ Indiu white. I obter,., however, th.t tho.e wh.teteh.sM etomple. .re dl » . tote to 
eh.oge oo th. upper .ort.e. to the white plumage ; and at this per.od the cheet u, .Iway wh.t. .u Cejlou b.rd., 
inasmuch as it seems to be the first part to change. . xroUMnn qi'fbinelaiTO 
The nearest allv to this species is T. affinis, which inhabits Burraah, Malacca, and portions of the Malayan aichipc)a„o. 
TL liSngi ish d from r. parSisi by having the feathers of the crest all of the same length, giving it a bro 
“ i "to hyCpelloe, L al.o Iw the wfit. bird h.viog the leather, of th. load neck and l»ck w, h bto k 
:i.,^:Ao;:^.eent.ige.oiamwtog^^^^^^^ 
wing 3’5o, tail 13'4. 
mstrihution^^ Paradise Flycatcher is a partial migrant to Ceylon, and its ^ 
most singular and the most difficult to study of any Ceylonese bird. The adults, "/f 
arrive in the island about the last week in October, spreading over f N^iombTa^^^^ 
again until the latter end of May. In the damp districts on the western side ^sf™ l!irl, 
Tangalla it remains no longer than March. An inland movement t en P others remain in the 
however, at the same time (according to my observations) quitting le is an en ir 7- ^ . 
last-named quarters to breed, and do not leave until the end of May, or even the first week .eL, 
time the whole of the white birds have disappeared, and I believe a so ic a u le . the 
a long-tailed red bird between the months of May and October, nor can nc any , • f enj -idults is 
contrary. Should I be correct, therefore, in this hypothesis, the fact of a riders far Us 
established. The young birds remain m the island, inhabiting the nor nein la .ji^o-s follow them 
Hambantota,- and on the arrival of the adults in the following season ^ birds 
into the wes;. It appears, however, probable that with the general infiow of 
arrive from abroad, as the numbers to be met with in all parts of the ow disapp^cai- 
their all being recruited from inland-bred birds. Here, then, we ave m ‘ return in the following 
aiice of all old birds in the island, whereas their progeny are e t e in mainland who partake in the 
season, and likewise the arrival, with these latter, of many districts of the island, 
general stream of migration throughout the country. s regai portions of the southern 
Dumbara and other parts of corresponding altitude in nuittin- the hills in March. I am not 
ranges, arc visited for the same period as the '' ^ p . .j^hich Mr. Bligh has seen it in the 
aware of its occurrence anywhere above an a tituc e ® ^ greater numbers than the west 
Kandy district. It inhabits the northern and eastern portio Maha-Oya, north of which, 
coast, there appearing to be an appreciable diminution of the species y 
