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Rh Bill, legs, and claws Mack ; iris drrp brown. Length about 4-5; tail 17; winu; '2- 1 ; tarsus '6; bill from p)- -55.

Distribution. The Himalayas, from Nepal to the extreme east of Assam, up to 70<><) (Vcf ; the eastern portion of the Empire, from the Rajraehal hills, Maunbhoom, Singbhoom, and Midnapore, through Bengal and Assam, down to Tenasserim aud Karennee, extending to Sumatra and Java. This species breeds in the Himalayas and also in the Khasi hills ; and from the latter locality I have seen young nestlings procured in June. To the other parts above mentioned it appears to be a winter visitor. The nest of this Flycatcher does not yet appear to have been found.

570. Cyornis astigma. The Little Blue-and-white Flycatcher.

B. I. i, p. 471 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 157, xlv, pt. ii, p. 201, xlvii, pt. ii, p. 22.

Muscicapula astigrna (Hodys. Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 205 ; Hume, Cat. no. 311 j id. S. If. xi, p. 112.

Muscicapula superciliaris (Jerd.), apud Oal.es, B. B., p. 292.

Coloration. Male. Resembles the male of C. superciliaris. Differs in having no white on the tail-feathers, the supercilium

Fig. 6. Bill of C. absent or very faintly indicated, and the white on the throat and hrra>i somewhat narrower. male. Resembles the female of C. superciliaris. Differs, generally speaking, in having the upper tail-coverts more fulvous than the other parts of the upper plumage, and in never having any tinge of blue on these parts, as is almost always the case in C. super ciliar is. The plumage may be termed olive-brown on the sides of the neck and breast, and not buff.

The females of the two species are, however, difficult to separate unless series of both are examined.

The young are precisely similar to those of C. ruptrct/tartf,

Bill and legs black ; iris brown (Cockbunt'). Length about 4'5 ; tail 1-9; wing 2'6; tarsus '6; bill from gape '6.

The two female specimens of a Flycatcher procured by Vardlaw Ramsay in Karennee, and retWivd by me to C. x//^< /< Ifin'riy in the ' Birds' of Burmah,' are now, 1 find, females of C. ti.li>/in>i.