54 TIMELIID^. 



Key to the Sjpecies. 



a. Underneatli glossy blue-black; under tail- 



coverts cbestiiut ; a white shoulder-patch. 



a'. Upper surface glossy blue-black fnlicata c? , p- 54. 



v. Upper surface brown canihiiiensis S , p. 56. 



b. Underneath brown ; no white shoulder-patch. 

 c'. Darker brown ; upper tail- coverts blue- 

 black fulicata $ , p. 54. 



d'. Lighter brown ; upper tail-coverts like the 



back cambawnsis 2 j P- 56. 



1. Thamnobia fulicata. 



Le Traquet des Philippines, Briss. Orii. iii. p. 444, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 

 (1760) ; Buf. PL Enl. vi. pi. 18o. fig. 1. 



Motacilla fulicata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 366 (1766, ea; Briss.). 



Le Traquet a queue striee, Levaill. Ois. iCAfr. iv. p. Ill, pi. 188. 

 fiiX. 1 * (1805); Sinidev. Krit. Frotnst., Levaill. p. 45 (1857). 



CEnauthe fulicata, Vieill. K. Bid. d'Hif^t. Nat. xxi. p. 435 (1818). 



ffiuanthe ptygmatura, Tieill. t. c. p. 436 (1818, e.v Levaill.). 



Thamnobia rufiventer, &wains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 489 

 {\%i\, e.T Levaill.). 



Ixos fulicatus, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89. 



Thamnobia fulicata, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 264 (1839) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 185 (1845) ; Bhjth, J. A. S. Beny. xvi. p. 139(1847); 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 165 (1849) ; i?;j. Consp. i. p. 298 

 (1850) ; La7/ard, Ann. ^- Maq. Nat. Hist. (2) xii. p. 2C6 (1853) ; 

 Burye.ss, P.'Z. S. 1854, p. 142 ; Horsf. ^- 3Ioore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 

 Mus. i. p. 281 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 121 (1863) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2988 (1869) ; Holdsiv. P. Z. S. 1872, 

 p. 454 ; Hume, Nests S,- JEyys Ind. B. p. 307 (1873) ; Fai)-b. Sir. F. 

 1876, p. 459 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 406 ; id. Str. F. 1S78, vol. ii, 

 p. 55 ; Ball, t. c. p. 216 ; Leyge, B. Ceylon, p. 440 (1879) ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 99. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, with a large 

 white wing-spot formed by the lesser wing-coverts ; the median and 

 greater ones white, blue-black at tip : bastard wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills brown, externally edged with blue-black like the back ; 

 tail-feathers black with margins of blue-black ; lores, sides of face, 

 and under surface of body glossy blue-black ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries like the breast ; quills ashy brown below, their inner edges 

 lighter ; " bill, legs, and feet black ; iris brown " (Ler/ge). Total 

 length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-7, tail 2-75, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Difiereut from the male. General colour above 

 dusky brown, more sooty on the back and rump, and lighter brown 

 on the head and mantle ; lesser wing-coverts rather more ashy brown 

 than the back; bastard wing, median, greater, and primary-coverts 



* Wrongly lettered as fig. 2 on the plate 



