9. EunciLLA. 351 



for about half an inch being brown. The underparts are paler sooty 

 brown, shading into pale chestnut on the chin and the centre of the 

 belly ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale chestnut, with con- 

 cealed dusky bases; under tail-coverts rich chestnut. 



In breedi)u/-j)Juma(/e the pale edges to the wing-coverts and 

 innermost secondaries have disappeared by abrasion, and the pale 

 chestnut of the chin and centre of the belly has faded into pale 

 brown. Ifc is not known that hirds of the year differ from adults. 

 Young in first plumage resemble the adult female, but have pale 

 centres and dark margins to the feathers of both the upper and 

 under parts. 



The Blue-fronted Redstart breeds in the pine-forests of the 

 mountain-chains which form the western, southern, and eastern 

 boundaries of Thibet, Cashmere, Xepal, Sikkim, Assam, Moupin, 

 and Kansu, descending into the valleys during the cold season. 



a. S ad. sk. Thibet. Earl of Gifford [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Cashmere. E. B. Sbarpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. d. S ad. ; e,f. N.W. Ilimalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Piawill 

 Juv. sk. * [P.]. 



g. S ad. sk. Near Dhm*msala. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P-]- 



h. $ ad.sk. 'Kwvas.on (Strachey). India Museum. 



i,k. cJ $ ad. ; I Juv. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



St. (Type of Phanicura tricolor, Hodgs.) 



m, n. cJ ad.; o, p. $ Nepal. ' B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



q. (S ad., r. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



8. (S ad. ; t, u. 2 Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



ad.; V. Juv. sk. 



u; x. cJ 2 ad. sk. Darjiling (Pearson). India Museum. 



y,z. cJ 2 ad. sk. Bootan (Pemberton). India Mnseum. 



12. Euticilla schisticeps. 



Phcenicura schisticeps, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mns.) ofB. 



of Xepal, Passeres, pi. Ixxix. no. 813, wide Hodgs. Gray's Zool. 



Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Ruticilla schisticeps (Hodr/s.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. (S(c. Nepal Coll. 



Hodgs. p. 69, App. p. 153 (1846); Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 29: 



Horsf. <!)- Moore, Cat. B. Miis. B.I. Co. i. p. 307 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. 140 (1803) : Gra>/, Cat. Mamm. 4'r. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. 

 *p. 34 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 221. no. 3164 (1869) ; Prjev. 



Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 175 (1877). 

 Ruticilla nigrogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 29, pi. Lri. ; Jerdon, 



B. Ind. ii. p. 140 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 221. no. 3171 



(1869) ; Hume, Stray Feaih. iv. p. 497 (1876). 



Adult male in full autumn plumage. Forehead and crown (with 

 the exception of a narrow black band at the base of the bill) cobalt- 

 blue, the black bases of the feathers becoming conspicuous on the 

 occiput, nape, and hind neck ; mantle and lower back black ; the 

 feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts deep rich chestnut with 

 concealed black bases ; scapulars black, ^-ith the terminal half of the 

 inside web deep rich chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts black ; median 

 wing-coverts white ; greater and primary wing-coverts black ; 



