8 TlMELIIDj;. 



Get%. B. i. p. 214 (1846) ; id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 

 p. 78 (1846) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Bejig. xvi. p. 154 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. p.* 159 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 258 (1850); Leith 

 Adams, P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 498, 1859, p. 181 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 500 

 (18152); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 264, no. 3858 (1869); Godicin- 

 Anst. J. A. S. Bmg. xxxix. p. 102 (1870) ; Bhjth, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 90*; Jerd. t. c. p. 133; Severtz. Turlvst. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873); 

 JIvme k HenderHm, Lahore to Yarh. p. 187 (1873) ; Hvme, Nests 

 •S- Eqgs Ind. B. p. 221 (1873); Hume 4'- Oates, Str. F. 1874, p. 105 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 331 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 335 ; Blyth 8f 

 Wald. B. Burm. p. 98 (1875) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beny. xlv. 

 p. 72 (1876); Hnme, Str. F. 1877, p. 30; id. ^- Davison, Str. F. 

 1878, vol. i. p. 236 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 93 ; Scidly, t. c. p 281 ; 

 Broolis, t. c. p. 236 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 52 ; Scul'ly, t. c. p. 437; 

 C. Su-inhoe, t. c. p. 105 1 ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 18 (1883). 

 Mviophoneus metallicus {7ion Temm.), Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. 

 'Mus., Passeres, pis. 130, 131 (no. 224) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 

 p. 83 (1844) ; Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, App. p. 326 (1849) ; 

 Horsf. Sr Moore, Cat. B. F.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 199 (1854). 



Adult. General colour above blue-black, each feather with a tip 

 of glossy blue, which appears silvery grey in the changing lights ; 

 lower back and rump ashy black with couccaled longitudinal centres 

 of white ; least wing-coverts uniform glossy ultramarine ; remainder 

 of wing-coverts black, washed with blue on the outer webs, the 

 median series tipped with white; quills blackish, externally purplish 

 blue ; tail-feathers purplish blue, blackish on the inner webs ; base 

 of forehead and lores black, succeeded by a band of brighter pur- 

 plish blue across the fore part of the crown ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts black, narrowly streaked with glossy blue, or, rather, silverj' 

 grey ; under surface of body purplish black, the feathers mesially 

 tipped with a spot of silvery grey, the abdomen, thighs, vent, and 

 tinder tail-coverts purplish black ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries dingy black, slightly washed with purplish blue, brighter 

 near the edge of the wing ; quills blackish below ; " bill dull yellow, 

 nostrils and along culmen to tip dusky or blackish ; feet shining 

 black ; claws horny black ; iris rich brown " (Scull >/). Total length 

 12 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 6-8, tail 6-4, tarsus 1-0. 

 Adult ftmale. Similar to the male in colour. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being uniform above and below, 

 without any glistening spots ; the under surface being sooty black ; 

 no white spots on the wing-coverts. 



Hah. Turkestan ; Afghanistan ; throughout the whole of the 

 Himalayas from Cashmere to Eootan, extending to Siam and the 

 Arakan and Karen hills in Burmah, as far south as Thayetmyo. 



a. $ ad. sk. Kandahar, Dec. 20, 1880. Lt.-Col. C. Swinhoe [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Afghanistan {Griffith). India Museum. 



c. Imm. sk. Peshawur. Lt.-Col. Way [P.]. 



* Blyth here notices the present species as one of those included in Griffith's 

 Afghanistan collection by mistake ; but the locality was correct, as Col. Swinhoe 

 obtained it at Candahart. 



