6. EEITHACTTS. 303 



the year resemble the female. Young in first plumage appear to be 

 unknown, 



Tbe Indian Blue Eobin breeds on the Himalayas from Cashmere 

 to Sikkim, the ^'eilgherry hills, and probably other mountain-ranges 

 in India. It winters in the plains of India and in Ceylon. 



a. (S ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhoiise Pinwill 



[P.]. 



b. cJ ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



c. (?. cJ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of Larcivora bnmnea, Hodgs.) 

 /. (S ad. sk. Nepal {Hodyson). India Museum. 



g. d ad. sk. Daijiliug. W. Fotheringham, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 h. S ad. sk. Madras. _ Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



i. (S ad. sk. Neilgbenies {Dr. Jerdon). India Museum. 



A-, /. d ? ad. sk. Ceylon. E. L. Lavard, Esq. [C.]. 



m. (S ad. sk. Newara Eliya. Mr. E. Boate [C.]. 



»(. 5 ad. sk. Near Kandy. A. White, E.«q. [C] . 



0. d' ad. sk. Travancore. F.W.Bourdillou,Esq.[C.]. 



10. Erithacus cyaneus. 



Motacilla cyane, Pall. £cis. Utiss. Hcic/is. iii. p. 697 (1776). 



Larvivora gracilis, Smn/ioe, Ibis, 1861, p. 262. 



Lusciola (Calliope) crane {Pall.), Hadde," Heis. Sibir., Voa. p. 250, 



pi. X. figs. 1-4 (186.3). 

 Lusciola cyane {Pall.), Srvinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 315. 

 Euticilla gracilis {Sicin/i.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 222. no. 3177 



(1869). 

 Larvivora cyane {Pall.), Swinhoe, P.Z.S. 1871, p. 358; Bh/th Sf 



Wold. B. Bnrm. p. 101 (1875) ; Tacz. Bull. Son. Zool. France, 



1870, p. 142 ; Prjev. Rotvlet/s Orn. 3Ii>>c. ii. p. 178 (1877) ; Hume 



^- Damson, Stray Fcath. vi. p. 335 (1878). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumage. General colour of the upper 

 parts dull dark blue, brighter on the forehead and crown ; lores, 

 forehead at the base of the bill, cheeks, and ear-coverts black, 

 shading into dull dark blue on the sides of the neck ; no trace of 

 eye-stripe: wings, wing-coverts, and tail brown, theouterwebs of the 

 feathers sufiused with dull daik blue. Underparts pure white ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts grey, more or less suffused witli 

 blue ; inner margin of quills ])ale brown. Bill nearly black : rictal 

 bristles nearly obsolete. "Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary intermediate 

 in length between the sixth and seventh, bastard primary 0-7 to 

 0-6 inch. Legs, feet, and claws pale brown. Length of wiag 

 3-0 to 2-75 inches, tail 2-0 to 1-7, eulmen 0-61 to 0-55, tarsus 

 1-1 to 1-01. 



In t^ie female the general colour of the upper parts is dark olive- 

 brown, suffused with blue on the upper tail-coverts : the underparts 

 are pale chestnut-brown, shading into nearly white on the under 

 tail-coverts. Males of the year have the outside webs of the quills 



