Ordo INSEssoRESs.
Tribus DENTIROSTRES.
Fam. Muscicapip®.

Genus PHAENICORNIS.

Tabs. VII.
PHANICORNIS PRINCEPS.

Pheen. capite, collo, dorso summo, alis, rectricibusque duabus medus nigris ; corpore inferior, dorso
amo, fascia lata alarum, maculis paucis remigum secundariarum, rectricibusque lateralibus
aurantio-cocciners ; rostro fortiore.

Longitudo corporis, 9 unc.; ale, 4+; caude, 4+; rostri, 1; tarsa, +.

Ir was not till after the publication of the Plates of this richly coloured bird and its allied species, that it was
discovered that Mr. Swainson had separated the form to which they expressly belong, from the rest of the
Fly-catchers, into a new genus under the name of Phenicornis, taking the Muscicapa flammea of former
authors as its type. Of this genus, which has been well characterized and most justly separated by Mr.
Swainson, the accompanying Plates represent three well-marked species, of which the present is the largest
and most brilliant in its markings. Its characters are, however, the same as in the rest of its genus, except
perhaps that its bill is somewhat more strongly developed.

With the exception of a single specimen in a private collection, that from which the figure was taken is
the only one with which we are acquainted. Both these specimens were males ; the female has not yet been
seen.

To the history of this species nothing can be added ; the specimens alluded to, however, were from the
Himalayan range, to which it is suspected its Aadctat is confined.

The whole of the head, throat, shoulders, upper part of the back, scapulars, tips of the quill-feathers and
secondaries, and the two middle tail-feathers, are of a deep glossy black; a large central spot in the wings,
the edges of the secondaries, and the whole of the rest of the plumage are of a lively orange-scarlet.

The figure is of the natural size.