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ZaiitLopygia, Blifth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 123 (1847). . X. tncdor 



( van„ptila, BU,th,J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 124 (1847) . . X. cyanomel^eua. 



( baiuUiyks, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. Gol (1854) .... X. narcissina. 

 Ivhjacornis, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xli. pt. 2, p. 51 



(1873) ... X. fuligiuosa. 



iNymphseus, Hume, Nest ^ Eggs Lid. B. p. 322 



(l*^''^) X. fuHgiuosa. 



Range. China and Japan, extending in winter to the Philippines, 

 -Borneo, and the Malayan peninsula. 



Key to the Species. 

 Males. 



a. Tail black; upper tail-covcrts black; rump 



^ yellow; throat and breast j-ellow. 

 « . A\ ith a yellow eyebrow ; secondaries en- 



^^'^^y ^lacl^ ." imrdssina, p. 249. 



. With a white eyebrow : one inner secon- 

 dary white along the outer web, forming 

 ■ T, ., ^ ^""^ '^^"^^ ^^'^ "^Ji? tricolor, p. 250. 



b. Tad black, the feathers blue externally and 



white at base ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 blue like the rest of the upper surface ; 

 breast and abdomen white ; throat and chest 

 black cyanonielmna. p. 251. 



c. J ad chestnut ; upper tail-coverts also chestnut ; 



upper and under surface leaden blue ; under 



tail-coverts chestnut fuligiuosa, p. 253. 



Fetnales. 

 a. No white at base of tail-feathers. 



a'. General colour above ohve-brown, greener 

 on the rump ; secondaries without any 

 white bar down the wings ; wing-coverts 



not tipped with white narcissina, p. 249. 



b'. General colour oHve-brown, with a broad 

 yellow band across the rump ; greater 

 coverts white at the tips ; one of the 

 inner secondaries externally white, fonn- 

 ing a longitudinal bar down the wing . . tricolor, p. 250. 

 b. Tail-feathers white for the basal half or for 

 the greater part of the outermost feathers. 

 c'. Upper tail-coverts blue ; under surface 

 uniform ashy or rusty brown, the abdo- 

 men white ; on the " throat a patch of 



white or yellow cijanomeIa>na, p. 251. 



a'. Upper tail-coverts white : under surface 



ashy grey, mottled with whitish cross bars, fuliginosa, p. 253. 



1 . Xanthopygia narcissina. 

 Muscicapa narcissina, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 577. fig. 1 ; Grat/, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 203 ; Temm. ^- Schl. Faun. Japan., Aves, p. 46, pi. 17 C • 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4848. ^ >V-^' ^, 



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