29. TARSIGER. 255 



b. Tail particoloured, yellow, with a broad termi- 

 nal band of black on all but the two centre 

 feathers, which are entirely black. 

 c'. Bill blackish above, lower mandible yellow; 

 head olive-brown like tlie mantle ; ear- 

 coverts and feathers round the eye black ; 

 throat yellow like rest of under surface . . chrysceus, p. 260. 

 d. Bill entirely black ; head dark blue-grey all 

 round, with a white spot above the fore 

 part of the eye and at base of throat .... stellaius, p. 261. 



1. Tarsiger cyanurus. 



Motacilla cyanui-us, Pall. Heisai Mussisch. Reichs, ii. Ajrp. p. 709. 

 Motacilla cyanura, Pall. Zooc/r. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 490, tab. 30. 

 QEnanthe cyanura, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 436. 

 Lusciola cyanura, Temm. c^- *S'c7i!/. Faim. Japon., Aves, p. 54, pi. 21. 

 Nemura cyanura, Bjj. Cotisp. i. p. 300 ; Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 222, 



no. 3185; Pr/ev. m Roxcleifs Orn. Misc. ii. p. 179; Dresser, B. 



Eur. parts Ixvii., Ixviii. (5 ad. descr. et fig., S juv. descr.). 

 Sylvia (Nemura) cyanura, Middend. Reis. Sibir. ii. p. 177, Taf. 15. 



fig. 5 (young) ; Radde, Sibir. Reis. ii. p. 258. 

 lanthia rufilata, Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 329 {nee Hodgs.). 

 Lusciola (Nemura) cyanea, Schrenck, Reis. Amurl. ii. p. 361. 

 lanthia cyanura, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 359 ; David ^- Oustal. Ois. 



Chine, p. 231, pi. 28 ; Blakist. ^- Pri/er, Ibis, 1878, p. 239. 



Adult male in full plumage (Tientsin, R. Swinhoe). General colour 

 above greyish blue, inclining to richer cobalt-blue on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; a distinct shoulder-patch of cobalt-blue formed 

 by the lesser wiug-coverts ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, 

 edged with blue, the inner secondaries also margined with dull blue, 

 the outer secondaries and the primaries with rusty brown ; tail blue, 

 the inner webs of the feathers dusky greyish brown ; a broad white 

 eyebrow running from the base of the forehead, and separated from 

 the crown by a narrow fringe of cobalt-blue ; feathers in front of the 

 eye blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of face greyish blue, a little more 

 pronounced on the cheeks and sides of throat ; entire under surface 

 of body creamy white, the thighs lavender-grey, the sides of the body 

 bright orange ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white 

 with dusky bases ; quiUs light brown below, fulvescent along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " bill black ; feet reddish brown ; iris brown " 

 (David). Total length 5'8 inches, culmen 0"4.5, wing 3'15, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0"9. (3Ius. H. Seebohm.) 



Aduh female (Tingdiow, Dec. 1867: R. Stvinhoe). General colour 

 above clear olive-brown, the rumj) inclining to bluish grey, the upper 

 tail-coverts dull blue, with faint edgings of olive-brown ; tail dull 

 blue, ashy brown on the inner webs of the feathers ; least wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts, as well as the 

 primarj'-coverts, dusky brown, edged with yellowish brown ; quills 

 dusky brown, with edgings of rufesccnt brown ; lores yellowish 

 buff; round tho eye a ring of buffy white feathers ; sides of face, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts olive-brown, with mesial shaft-lines of deep 

 fulvous ; throat yellowish buff, separated from the whitish abdomen 



