EHIPIDUEA albifeontata. 
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, ^ ■f„fi,„,-,.,lUHn<’hiessoiicoinparmfftheinaularspecim6nswithIndian. Someofthelatterhave 
have not been able ^ tail-feathers than the generality of Ceylon birds, but others have less ; and as to 
more white, perhaps, on the lateral tad te TTi„„i„vas Gondul, and Dehra Boon, in the national collection, 
the bill., I fi..d tot three .pectm.e. from to tip. A North-we.t Prorioe. e»m,,l. 
.re .mailer m the bill tom toy toy f i.a.fe,thet eatendiDg up it 1-8 inch i one from 
measures in the wing 3 3o inches, ana uas i . respectively; and these 
Eawul Pindi measures 2-9 in the wing, and two rom Boon 3 16 aua^^ ^ 
last three have the greater wing-coverts very deep y ippe wi , ^ ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society,’ 
liarity. Mr. Nevill, of the Ceylon Civil Service, in a communi atiou made ^y.^he describes 
Ceylon Branch, 1867--70,p. 138, writes of seeing a FantoledFlycatcto^^ 
(from seeing the bird on the wing, I conclude) as ha g u u ^ R nertoralis although I consider it 
white.” It is possible, as Mr. Holdsworth suggests, that it may have been E. rectorahs, althoug 
more probable that it was the young of the present species. , e.^f; . Wll lo sane 0'61. 
An .dull X. perier-a (God.v.ri v.lley) me.mre. :-Wi»g 2-7 .nehe. , t». 4-1 , to ™p • .npercilium 
Head and cL blackish, paling into brown on the back, and ink, *‘X /' ™ ““ 
white; throat whiteifore nook and side. 1 A 7 wX 
rnfescent on the abdomen and under tail-covert, , .ide, of to chest blackmb brown ; wn.g, m.d pie 
the tail-feathers gradually pahng towards the tips into dull whitish. 
Di,(rifa«».-Tho .‘Pantail" i. chiefly an inhabitant of the dry jnngle-region between 
mountains and the south-east coast, the eastern portion of the low country ^ ^ Tn the first- 
welliganga and the district of Uva, including the patna-basin at the foot of the ^ 
named tract of country, including the Park,” it is more common than elsewhere 
borders of tanks and Mso detacLd clumps of wood. From the Bintenne country f 
and the valleys in the Hewahette and Maturata districts, where i is y no mean . p^^ggi^wa and 
chiefly on tree-dotted patnas and in the glens "y being 
Ilaputale. It would appear that it is found occasional y P ^ J occasionally 
that of the bird seen near Nuwara J ^ j ^^et with it at that season at Baddegama. 
seen during the north-east monsoon in the GaUe d . , . i. r 4 .t,„+ .japp . but there is no reason 
I have nevL seen it in the neighbourhood of Trincomalie nor to tlie north of that place , but 
to suppose that it does not inhabit this quarter of the island. , ,. + t yhAArpr Ben o-al extending to 
leMou weiks. -The Whik-bvo.efl Pauto, is touud .U -XXoo'Z ttcL, 
the f«,t of the Himalayas, ouly not toward, tbe soutb-ermk « » ““X” „ortb.weslem limit, Mr, Hume 
and IS not rare in the North-west Provinces and in Sindh. ^ , u Pp^pvat He remarks 
says that it is common throughout the whole region, inelnding Sindh, Alount Aboo, ilZ7ot 
that it breeds as high up as 4000 feet on the Himalayas. Extending to the east I ^ 
not record it from Caehar. In Upper Pegu it appears to he not nneommon, and Blyth recorded t ’ 
although Messrs. Hume and Davison have not found it in Tenasserim. Mr. Fairbank met with it up to 
in the Palanis. 
Hujas-This show, little bird is o.e of the most interestiug of our Plyo.tohers i 
of trees, or those stauding isolated on patnas and semicultivated g, oiin , Jung ^ it is a fearless 
open grassy glades, and in the Eastern Proyince coooannt-topes m the vretm^ of I* “ ‘ " 
species, and Ln lot paired for breeding is usually of solitary hab.t. At thm me to 
amusing; for the male, in his endeavonrs to attrmtt the attent.on of his oonsott 
to that of the Peacock, and seems to delight iu displaying Ins prowess to mankind a. 
He will sometimtw alilh. on a tree close to a bystander, and Proceed "th a measured ht.Ie 
a horizontal trunk or up a slanting branch, with an ontsprea mg mov reminding one 
to and fro of its body, combined with an expanding and '■ whistle, nttenkl in an 
of tbe balance-step in . hornpipe I Not less s.r^nl.r is to “tTometimes does, from a thickly 
ascending scale for the edification of its mate; and •’:“PXlt to persuade one's seU that it is made by 
foliaged tree, completely hiding the performer from view, i is ^fflej^ ^ ^ 
a bird. I. is very active in catching to prey, and, ” /“f^Xateut i^ the mmner above described ; anS 
with a sudden dart. I have seen it on the ground, stalking aDour m 
