14 TIMELIIDJE. 



11. Myiophoneus castaneus. 



Mviophoneus castaneus, Wardlmc Hamsai/, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 16, 

 pi. 1. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above maroon brown, 

 deepening into Ugbter chestnut on the upper tail-coverts ; lower 

 back and rump with half-concealod silky white bases to the feathers : 

 scapulars like the back ; lesser wing-coverts purplish cobalt, forming 

 a wing-patch of blue ; lesser and median series like the back ; 

 bastard-wing feathers black, washed with blue ; primary-coverts 

 dusky, externally washed with dark maroon ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally chestnut ; tail-feathers chestnut ; head and hind neck 

 deep purplish blue, with a tinge of purplish on the latter ; lores, 

 base of forehead, and feathers round the eye black ; across the fore 

 part of the crown a band of purplish cobalt ; ear-coverts, throat, 

 and breast like the head ; remainder of under surface of body dull 

 chestnut-brown, brighter on the under tail-coverts ; thighs dusky ; 

 all the feathers of the abdomen and Hanks with concealed white 

 bases ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dusky, washed with chest- 

 nut, the feathers near the edge of the wing blue ; bill and feet 

 black; "iris grey -blue" (C. Boch). Total length lOw inches, cul- 

 men 1'15, wing 5"65, tail 3*6, tarsus 1"8. (J/(w. B. G. AVardlaw 

 Hamsay.) 



The Museum specimen, probably a female, differs in being almost 

 entirely chestnut, more dusky on the lores, sides of face, throat, and 

 breast ; the crown and hind neck only are purplish blue ; and there 

 is an appearance of the purplish-cobalt wing-patch on the lesser 

 wing-coverts. Total length 9'7 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5-05, 

 tail 3-6, tarsus 17. 



Bab. Mountains of Sumatra. 



«. [ ? ] ad. sk. [Sumatra.] Purchased. 



3. CALLENE. 



Type. 

 Cinclidium, Bli/th, J. A. S. Bvng. xi. p. 181 (1842, nee 



Gould) ' ' C. frontalis. 



Callene, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 136 (1847) C. frontalis. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas, and Palani and Nilghiri hills in 

 Southern India, ranging into Travancore. West Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



. Throat blue or light ashy. 

 a'. A patch of bright blue feathers on the wing 

 formed by the lesser and median wing- 

 coverts; abdomen slate-colour like the 

 brcasL ; a blue frontal band and eyebrow. . frontalis, p. 1.5, 



