28 TIJIELIID.^;. 



colour above indigo-blue black ; lesser and median wing-coverts like 

 the back; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 black, edged with dark indigo like back, more plainly on the secon- 

 daries ; tail-feathers black ; crown of head a little duller than the 

 back, base of forehead and lores black, surmounted by a broad half- 

 concealed streak of silvery white ; feathers round the eye black ; 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, chiu, and sides of neck blue-black, like the back ; 

 throat, fore neck, breast, sides of body, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts dark blue, not quite so deep as the back ; abdomen ashj^, 

 with a bluish shade ; thighs blackish ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries dark blue ; quills below blackish ; inner edge of quills a 

 little paler ; " bill black ; tarsus black ; iris brown " {H. 0. Forbes). 

 Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-6, tail 1-5, tarsus 1-25. 

 (IJus. F. Nicholson.) 



Hah. Mountains of Sumatra. 



4. Brachypteryx leucophrys. 



Myiothera leucophrys, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 448. fig. 1 (1827). 

 Brachypteryx leucophrys, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 209 (1846) ; Bp. Co7up. 



i. p. 257 (1860). 

 Brachypteryx sepiaria, pt., Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 312, no. 4664 



(186y, nee Horsf.). 



Adult female. General colour above brown, a little more rufes- 

 cent on the lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts, bastard wing and primary- coverts 

 dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the back ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally margined with reddish biown ; upper tail-coverts 

 reddish brown ; tail-feathers dusky externally, washed with reddish 

 brown ; lores and feathers round eye fulvous, mottled with dusky 

 bases; ear-coverts brown, with narrow fulvous shaft-lines; cheeks 

 fulvous brown, streaked with narrow whitish shaft-lines; throat 

 white, with a slight tinge of fulvous brown ; fore neck and chest 

 light fulvous brown, with faint whitish shaft-lines ; breast and ab- 

 domen white, shaded with fulvous brown ; sides of body, flanks, and 

 thighs fulvous brown ; under tail-coverts lighter fulvous ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries light fulvous brown ; quills below dusky, 

 inner edge of quills dusky brown. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 

 0"6, wing 2-35, tail 1*4, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Java. 



«. c? ; i, c. 5 ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Brachypteryx hyperythra. 



Brachypteryx hypers thra, Jercl ^- Bli/tJi, P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 201 (descr. 

 2 ) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 49.5, no. 337 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-t. B. i. 

 p. 312, no. 4666 (1869) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 499 (descr. S) ; 

 id. Str. F. 1879, p. 93. 



The entire upper surface of the bird, including the face, sides of 



