ALSEONAX MUTTUI. 
(THE RUSTY FLYCATCHER.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Butalis muttui, Layard, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 127 ; Legge, Ibis, 1878, p. 208. 
/ernwMtetis, Jerdon, B. ot Ind. i. p. 460, in part (1862). , i> r/ ^ lo^o 
Alseonaw terricolor [nee Hodgs.), Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 441; Layard, 1 . Z. S. 
p. 204; Legge, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 366. 
Alseonax flavipes, Legge, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 36/. . 
Alseonax muttui, Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 132 (1879). 
Suprt b™«eu., pile. .„pra».<Uib.,> m»gi. rutesoe.tibus : 
^ concoloribus, majoribus brunneis, Myesconti-rufo inarg.natis : tec nabus 
secuudiiriis fulvescenti-rirfo marginatis: rectricibus brunneis, pallidioie lu . , nallide brunneL 
thalmico albidis : regione parotica bmnnea : gutture a bo : geins P®«f ® 
fulveseenti lavato : 5ectore medio et abdomine pur6 albia : subcaudalibus fuhescenti-albidis . 
ribus cervinis : remigibus iufri. brunneis, intus cervino marg natis : rostro mgricanti-brunneo, mandibula flavicaute 
ad apicem brunneft : pedibus pallidd flavis ; iride rufescenti-brunnea. 
Adult ntale and female. Length 5-3 to 5-5 inches ; wing 2-7 to 2-9 ; tail 2-1 to 2-2 ; tarsus O'oS ; mid toe and claw 
0-57 ■ bill to gape 0-7 to 0-75. The legs and feet are exceedingly delicate in this species. , f , 
Iris LeCbrown; bill, upper mandible dark brown with pale tip, under mandible fleshy yellow i legs and feet pam 
Yellow ■ eyelid dark plumbeous. In one female the tip of the upper mandible is pale. 
lores ial fringe, and a spot beneath the gape whitish; head and upper part of hind neck dark oliYe-brown, 
and under tail-coverts white, flanks light yellowish broum ; wing-limng brownish, paling off into 
Ofe. This ' ThStnoiit 
thif colour most prevalent on the outer webs of the Wvm ^'l^ngth 
?otchtS3i""S^ specimens I have procured in 
the island ^ ^ representative of this species, 
Cyornis manddhi (Rume, btr. i^eatn. ]>• o j wn <5 T^pnned the British Museuui has 
i„h»bl.ing Sikbim .«d th. hill-regiou of South™ Indm. ff* l.belW, i« «.™o. 
aeguired a specimeu of this species from the co ro ion sen i™' description of O, ma^^delln. On Mr. Sharpe 
as a female Cyomis magnirostris, but it corresponded with . P member of the genu.s 
and mvself Lpiming it with the C.,lonbM, it pro.iM *» '“Vito the . the 
Ahmua, having the pale lower mniidihio whidi does not oil d ,hght!v 
first-named genus. It is almost identical on the upper sui ^ prowuer, aud the whole breast instead 
darker ; but the under surface is very much darker, the fla browner than 
of being white is tawny brown, the vent and under tail-cmur s description he says, “the breast, 
in A. mvittii, and the white throat-patch smaller. In ' • are— wing 3-0 inches, tail 2v5 ; the legs are 
sides, aud flanks are pale brown.” The dimensions o is sp insular form. Alseoma; fermyinewe, 
in the dried skin dusky yellow, and they are more ro us j ^ion not far distant from these two species ; 
now placed by Mr. Sharpe in the genus Bermchehdon, is in its ^ ^ 
