436 JIUSCICAPIII.S. 



b. With a great deal of white on the tail, reaching 



nearly to the end of the feathers, the four centre 

 feathers only without any white : size very 

 large ; wing 3'45 inches ; legs pale concreta, p. 437. 



c. With no white base to the tail. 



c'. Under tail-coverts blue or green, with broad 

 white edgings. 



a". No black spot on chin ; feathers at base of 

 nostrils black, as well as a line across the 

 base of the forehead : size larger ; vsing 

 3"45 inches melanops, p. 438. 



b". Chin black, and also across the base of the 



forehead: size smaller; wing S'05 inches, thalasdnoides, p. 439. 

 d'. Under tail-covei-ts white. 



c". General colom- dull verditer-blue, brighter 

 on the forehead and eyebrow ; ear-coverts 

 dull verditer-blue ; throat and fore part of 

 cheeks with silvery tips panai/ensis, p. 440. 



d". General colour dull greyish blue, the eye- 

 brow, forehead, and chin brighter cobalt ; 

 ear-coverts dull grey, with a sUght greenish 

 wash sordidd, p. 440. 



1. Stoparola indigo. 



Muscicapa indigo, Horsf. Tr.Linn.Soc. xiii. p. 14G; id. Zool. Sesearch. 



in Java, Birds, pi. 7. 

 Ilypothvniis indigo, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 973 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 320 ; 



'Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 3Im. E.I. Co. i. p. 291 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. 



Soc. new series, i. p. 326. 

 Niltava indigo, Grui/, Gen. B. i. p. 264 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 325, 



no. 4893. 

 Stoparola indigo, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 127 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. 



S. B. p. 174. 



Adult male. General colour above indigo-blue, rather greener 

 towards the back and rump ; forehead and feathers over the eye 

 brio-hter cyaneous or cobalt ; wing-coverts like the back, the least 

 ones slightly tinged with bright cobalt ; greater coverts and quills 

 black, externally margined with indigo-blue, more broadly on the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts black, washed with blue at the tip ; 

 tail-feathers black, externally edged with blue, all but the two 

 centre feathers white at the base ; a narrow frontal line, feathers 

 in front of and round the eye, chin, fore part of cheeks and of ear- 

 coverts black, the remainder of the ear-coverts deep indigo like the 

 sides of the neck ; throat brighter blue, more cobalt ; fore neck and 

 breast indigo, becoming paler on the flanks ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of 

 the inner web ; thighs duU blue, with hoary edges ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the axUlaries washed with bluish, the edge of the 

 •nnng bright blue. Total length 5*6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-9, 

 tail 2*35, tarsus 0-65. 



A young female bears traces of a robin-like plumage, the rump- 

 feathers having subtenninal spots of pale ochre ; breast and abdo- 



