306 MusciCAPiD.]!;. 



Adult male. General colour bright greyish blue, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; quills and tail-feathers like the back, internally 

 blackish ; under surface of body greyish blue like the back, a little 

 duller, the long flank-plumes silky white with blue tips ; forehead, 

 lores, ring round the eye, ear-coverts, and half the thi'oat black : 

 lower half of throat and fore neck deep maroon ; " bill black ; feet 

 dark greenish black" (A. Everett), " bluish or purplish black" {Da- 

 vison) ; " iris crimson " (^1, Everett), " lake to crimson " {Davison). 

 Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3-85, tail 3-3, tarsus 0'75. 



Adult female. General colour dull blue, almost uniform above and 

 below ; long flank-plumes with partially concealed silky- white bases ; 

 base of the forehead, lores, cheeks, tkroat, and breast black, the rest 

 of the under surface somewhat shaded with blackish ; quills and tail- 

 feathers blackish, externally greyish blue ; " legs dark green-black ; 

 iris crimson" {A. Everett). Total length 7"9 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 3'8, tail 3'5, tarsus 0'7. 



Hub. Southern half of Tenasserim provinces, Malayan peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



a. cJad. ; b. c? juv. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c, d. cJ $ ad. ; e. J juv. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M. Bouvier. 



/•cJad. ; (/, /j. cJjuv. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l 



/. dad. sk. Sarawak, Bor- A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



neo. 



k,l. cJ?ad. sk. Sarawak, Bor- Governor Ussher [P.]. 



ueo. 



m. (S ad. ; n. S juv. sk. Bintulu, N.W. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



Borneo. 



'2. Philentoma pyrrhopterum. 



Muscicapa pyrrhoptera, Temm. PL Col. 59G. fig. 2 ; Lotv, Sarawak, 



p. 410. 

 Muscipeta plumosa, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 79. 

 Philentoma castaneum, Eyton, Ann. N. H. xvi. p. 229 ; Hartl. Rev. 



Zool. 1846, p. 5. 

 Philentoma pkmiosum, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 10. 

 Tchiti-ea pyrrhoptera, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 260; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 334, 



no. 5026, 

 Philentoma pyrrhopterum, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 205 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 324 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 449 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 138 ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 19 ; Tweedd. t. c. p. 316 ; Hume ^- Davisoti, 



Str. F. 1878, p. 223. 



Adidt male. General colour above and below greyish blue, a little 

 lighter on the forehead and over the eye and on the throat ; the 

 long silky plumes of the flanks and abdomen white, mixed with 

 greyish blue, the edges to the feathers being of this colour ; wings 

 hke the back, the lesser wing-coverts slightly brighter blue ; thighs 

 blue ; quills and tail-feathers dusky blackish on the inner web, 

 greyish blue externally : " bill black ; iris crimson " (A. Everett) ; 

 " legs, feet, and claws pale purplish blue " (Davison). Total length 

 6-5 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3'25, tail 2'8, tarsus 0'65. 



Adtdt female. Different from the male. General colour above 



