15. MCsciCAPriA. 203 



2. Poliomyias hodgsoni. 



Siphia ervthaca, Jerd. 4- Blyth, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 201 (nee Blyth, 

 1847) ; 'Jerd. B. India, i. p. 480 : Godwin- Austen, J. A. S. B. 1874, 

 p. 158; Hinne, Str. F. 1874, pp. 458, 475; WcUden in BlytKs B. 

 Burma, p. 103 ; Sumc, Str. F. 1877, p. 137 ; id. &• Davison, Str. 

 F. 1878, p. 233. 



Siphia hodgsoni, T'err. N. Arch. Jfiis. vi. Bull. p. 34, vii. p. 29 ; 

 David, op. cit. ix. pi. 4. fig. 4 ; id. 1^- Oustakt, Ois. Chine, p. 115. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey : upper tail-coverts 

 blackish ; tail-feathers dark brown, all white at the base excepting 

 the two centre feathers ; all the wing-coverts slaty grey like the 

 back ; quills brown, with lighter brown margins ; sides of face slaty 

 grey like the crown, the cheeks and feathers in front of the eye 

 blackish ; a slightly indicated line of white feathers on the sides of 

 the crown behind the eye : entire throat and breast rich orange, 

 yellowish on the lower fiaiiks and under tail-coverts ; lower abdo- 

 men white ; thighs slaty grey ; under wing-coverts and axUlaries 

 yellowish : quills brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner 

 web : '• bin black, lower mandible brown ; legs and feet dark reddish 

 brown ; iris very dark brown " (Hume and Davison). Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. H. H. 

 Godwin-Austen.') 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas to Moupin in Western China, extending 

 to Burmah and Tenasserim. 



15. MUSCICAPULA. ^ 



Type. 

 Muscicapula, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 939 (1843) M. sapphira. 



Range. Indian peninsula and Burmese countries, extending pro- 

 bably through Southern China to Formosa ; Java ; Sumatra. 



Key to tJie Species. 

 Adult ?nalex. 

 a. Throat white. 



a'. Upper surface blue ; no white on the wing. 

 a". Base of tail white ; over the eye a broad 



white eyebrow . ". .wperciliaris, p. 204. 



6". No white at base of tail ; eyebrow lighter 



blue than the crown, but not white .... astigma, p. 205. 

 h'. Upper surface black ; down the wing a white 

 bar ; a broad white eyebrow ; tail white at 



base muculata, p. 207. 



6. Throat rufous. 



c'. Above slaty grey, with a white eyebrow hyperyihra, p. 206. 



«f . Above ultramarine, as also sides of face, sides of 



throat, neck and chest ; liead brighter cobalt .■^apphirn, p. 208. 



Adult females. 

 a. Upper tail-coverts like the back, not rufescent or 

 contrasting with the rumd. 

 a. Rusty butf colour of the throat confined to the 



throat itself sttpcrciliaris, p. 204. 



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