13. ERYTHKOMVXAS. 199 



a. (J hiem. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.]. 



b. d ad. wstiv. sk. Near Adigrat, March W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.l 



23, 18(i«. 



c. $ aestiv. Lake Ashangi, May W. T. Blanford, Esq. fCl 



3, 18(58. 



13. ERYTHROMYIAS. 



Pratiucola, pt., auct. 

 Erytlirosteina, pt., auct. 



Bill and wing of E. dujueforia. 

 Range. Confined to the islands of Java, Lombock, and Timor. 



Kill to the Species. 



a. Back black ; throat and breast orange ; down the 



wing a white bar ; base of tail white. 



a. A white eyebrow, extending from the base of the 



forehead to the sides of the neok clumetoria, p. 109. 



h'. No white eyebrow, only a white line ninning 

 from the hinder part of the eye above the ear- 

 coverts mufiUeri, p. 200. 



b. Back chestnut ; head black ; nnder surface white, 



with a broad black pectoral band ; no white at 



base of tail pj/n-Iioiwta, p. '200. 



1. Erythromyias dumetoria. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Saxicola dumetoria, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 490 ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 167. 

 Xanthopygia dumetoria, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 14. 

 Niltava tricolor, Graii, Haiul-l. B. i. p. 327, no. 4907. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above sooty black, the 

 mantle with white shafts to the feathers : wing-coverts and quills 

 blackish, with a white bar down the wings, composed of the inner 

 greater coverts and the outer webs of some of the inner secondaries ; 

 two centre tail-feathers black, the others white, with the terminal 

 third black ; sides of face black like the crown, with a distinct 

 white eyebrow running from the base of the bill to the sides of the 

 neck ; throat and breast light orange-rufous, whiter on the chin ; 

 remainder of under surface of body white, washed with sooty grey 

 on the flanks ; thighs dusky blackish ; under wing-coverts white, as 



