36. HypoTHYMis. 275 



brown ; edges of eyelids blue, eyelids plumbeous " (Oates). Total 

 length 5'8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-8, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 light earthy brown, the wing-coverts and scapulars slightly washed 

 with pale azure ; quills light brown, externally edged with ashy, 

 which has a pale azure shade ; tail-feathers brown, with a blue 

 shade on the edges of the feathers ; head azure-blue, as also the 

 throat and fore neck, the blue brighter on the crown and round the 

 eye ; chest greyer ; rest of under surface of body white, as also the 

 under wing-coverts and inner lining of the quills. Total length 

 6'5 inches, wing 2-95, tail 3, tarsus 0-7. 



Obs. The female bird above described is from Matheran, and 

 seems large. A male fx-om the same place has the wing 2*75, the 

 tail 2*85 inches. The Pegu bird is more like the Malayan H. occi- 

 pitalis, but has scarcely as much blue shade over the white belly as 

 in tj^Dical examples ; it is difficult to decide from a single bird, and 

 Mr. Hume, who has had a large series before him, pronounces Pegu 

 specimens to be identical with Indian. 



Hah. India generally, ranging through the Burmese countries to 

 Pegu and Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. India. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Calcutta. Capt. J. Biddulph [0.]. 

 c,d. cj ? ad. ek. Matheran, Bombay, Major J. Hayes Lloyd [C.]. 



Jan. 1872. 



e,f. c? ; ff, h, i. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 k. S ad. sk. Mahabaleshwm-Hills. Colonel Sturt [P.]. 



l,m. c? $ fid. sk. Tenasserim. J. CD. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



n. S ad. sk. Bassein, Pegu. "VV. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



o, p, q. S ad. sk. Sai^n, Cochin M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



China. 



2. Hypothymis occipitalis. 



L'Azur a calotte et a collier noir, Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. iv. d. 11. 



pi. 153. J V > 



Muscicapa cserulea {nee Gm.). Raffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 312 ; 



Kittl. Kupf. Vog. p. 7, Taf. 9. fig. 1. 

 Hypothymis cserulea {nee Gm.), Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 273, et 1828, 



p. 318 {ex Levaill.) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 320 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 



p. 56. 

 Muscicapa occipitalis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 97. 

 Myiagra azurea {7iec Bodcl), Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 271 ; Pelz. 



Beis. Nov., Voff. p. 78 (pt. ). 

 Myiagra cserulea, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485. 

 Mviagva tj'tleri, Bearan, Ibis, 1867, p. 324 ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 328, no. 4928 ; Hume, 8tr. F. 1874, p. 217. 

 Hvpotliymis azurea {nee Bodd.), Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 102; Salvad. 



'Ucc. Born. p. 133; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 182; Oates, Str. F. 



1877, p. 149 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 18 ; id. Tr. Linn. Soc. n. s. 



i. p. 325; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 693, 760, 825, et 1878, 



p. 284. 



Adult male. Above rich deep azure-blue, brighter on the head, 

 where the feathers are of a velvety texture ; a frontal line, chin, and 



