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darker blue above, with the lower parts bright ferruginous, 
except just the middle of the belly and the lower tail-coverts, 
which are pure white. 
309. Cyornis pallipes. 
Mr. Wallace has a nearly allied C. rufifrons from Borneo. 
311. Muscicapula ^stigma. 
In one of Mr. Hodgson's drawings in the British Museum 
are beautifully represented, together and contrastingly, four 
nearly allied species, viz. M. superciliaris (Muscicapa hemileucura, 
Hodgson), M. cestigma , M. ciliaris, and M. leucoschista. The 
two latter have to be added to Hr. Jerdon's list; and the second 
he regarded as dubious in his Appendix (p. 876). M. astigma is 
plain blue above, white below, with no white on the tail: one figure 
in another drawing has a white superciliary line, which the other 
has not; so that there may yet be a second species here. M. leu- 
coschisTxIl is like M. superciliaris ; but the white on the throat is 
much broader, there is less of blue on the sides of the breast, 
and no white on the tail-feathers. M. ciliaris is of a darker 
and duller blue above, with white superciliaries commencing from 
nostrils, the greater coverts and outer webs of tertiaries white, 
as are also the entire under parts. 
315. Niltava macgrigori^:. 
Nest figured by Mr. Hodgson in a slight hollow of a tree, 
with pinkish-white eggs. 
321. Siphia suPER.ciLiARis (Blyth) ; <5 Muscicapa tricolor 
and $ M. rupestris , Muller. (Cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 44.) 
Specimens in the Derby Museum of Liverpool. The female 
is ashy above, beneath rufous, paler on the breast and vent; 
superciliaries pale rufous; wing and tail-feathers pale brown, 
slightly washed on the outer webs with light rufous. One tail- 
feather (a new one), in the Timor specimen, bluish as in the 
male. Mr. Wallace has a Siphia rufigula from Northern Celebes. 
323. Erythrosterna leucura. 
Probably Muscicapa rufogulai'is , Brehm, as distinguished from 
his M. parva. The true E. parva (Bechstein ; Saxicola rubecu- 
loides, Sykes) I have seen from the Deyra Doon and from the 
Dukhun, and must therefore be added to the Indian list. 
