9. KUTICILLA. 353 



13. Ruticilla caerulocephala. 



Phocnifura eperulocepliala, f 7y„/-.<, P. Z. S. 18:^0, p. ;3o ; Gould Cent 



p. liJl (1^42) ; /Lxh/s. Graifs Zool. Misc. p. 8-3 (1844). 

 1 hceniciira cieriileus, ILxh/s. MS. Unuvimis (in the Brit. Mux. ) <,fB. of 



Nepal, Passeres, pi. Ixxv. tig. 3. nu. 475, pi. Ixxxiii. fig. 1. no. 475 



{icon. ined. ). 

 Ruticilla e;erutDcephala {Vigors), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. ISO (1846)- 



Blyth, J A. S. Bemj. xvi. p. 134 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. 



Soc. p. 1G8 (1849J ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 206 (1850) ; Ilorsf. ^- Moore, 



Cat. B.Mm. E.I. Co. i. p. ;}07 ( 1854) ; Jerd B. Ind. ii. p. 141 (1863) 



Grmj, Hand-l B. i. p. 221. no. 3163 (18G9) ; Hume S,- Menders. 



Lahore to Yark. p. 211, pi. xiv. (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 78. 

 Adeluia ca?ruloeephala (riyors), Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p 8 



(18o4) ; Wardlaw Bamsai/, Ibis, 1880, p. 58. 

 Ruticilla lugens, Severtz. furkest. Jevotn. pp.65, 121 (1873)- (W 



Str. Feath. 1875, p. 428. V - ^ ' "• 



In the adult male in full mdumn plumage the head and nape are 

 greyish brown, with concealed light blue centres to each feather ; a 

 narrow line at tlie base of the upper mandible, the lores, the feathers 

 round and behind the eye, the chin, and the ear-coverts are black. 

 The throat, breast, under wing-coverts, back, and scapulars are black* 

 eachfeather obscurely margined with bro\vn. Rump,uppertail-coverts,' 

 and tail black. Wings and wing- coverts black, except the median wing- 

 coverts and the outside margin of the innermost secondaries, which are 

 white; axillarics, belly, and under tail-coverts white; inner margin of 

 quiUs brown. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wings with the fourth 

 and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary about 

 equal to the ninth, bastard piimary 0-9 inch. Length of wing 3-2 to 

 2-95 inches, tail 2-71 to 2-3, culmen 0-5.5 to 0-5, tarsus 0-9 to 0-88. 

 In the adult female in full hreediny-pluma(je the general colour 

 of both the upper and the under parts is greyish brown, slightly 

 darker on the wings and tail, and paler on the centre of the belly, 

 under tail-covorts, and axillaries : the upper tail-coverts are dull 

 chestnut; the greater and median wing-coverts have white tips 

 suffused with chestnut, and the innermost secondaries have pale 

 margins. In spj-in<j the male has cast the tips of his feathers, the 

 head and nape being in consequence pale blue, and the black parts 

 without any brown margins to the feathers. Little change appears 

 to take place in the plumage of the female. It is not known that 

 Urdu of the year differ from adults, except in having the upper tail- 

 coverts dull chestnut in both sexes. Younq in Jirst jjhumu/e have 

 pale centres and black margins to most of the feathers of tlie ujjper 

 and underparts ; the wing-coverts are .spotted as in the adult female, 

 the outer webs of the innermost secondaries are broadly margined 

 with white, and the upper tail-coverts are dull chestnut. 



The Blue-headed Redstart breeds in the pine- and birch-districts 

 of Xorth-eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan, and the range of the Hima- 

 layas, descending into the valleys in winter. 



«. rfacl. sk. Pushiit, Afghanistan (rr'/7-/^//,). India Museum. 



0. d acl. sk. G)lgit,("a.shmere, June 2."., 187il. Dr. J. Seidlv TP 1 



c- d,d. 2 .iiiv. sk. (iilgit, ("ashmere, .July 8 and 11, Dr. J. Scully [P j' 



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