Go. STOPAROLA. 437 



men mottled with svhite feathers, each of which is edged with dusk)- 

 brown. 



Hah. Java. 



rt, 6. d" ad. sk. West Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c.. 5 imm. sk. West Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.j. 



2. Stoparola albicaudata. 



Muscicapa albicaudata, Jerdon, Madi: Juurn. xi. p. 16 ; id. lUustr. 



Lid. Om. pi. 14. 

 Niltava albicaudata, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 264 ; id. Ilcind-I. B. i. p. .326, 



no. 4894. 

 Stoparola albicaudata, Blyth.J. A. S. B. x%-i. p. 125; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 17o; Hunie, Xests ^- Eqqs Lid. B p. 210 ; Fairb. Str. 

 j; 1877, p. 402. 



Ilypothymis albicaudata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 320 ; Horsf. S; Mowe, Cat, 



B. Mus. E.L Co. i. p. 292. 



Eumvias albicaudata, ITorsf. S^- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.L Co. i. p. 422 ; 

 Jerd. B. Lid. i.p. 464; Hume, Str. F. 1870, p. 396. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above deep indigo-blue, 

 with a slight eyebrow of lazuline blue ; rump slightly shaded with 

 brighter blue ; wing-coverts brown, externally lazuline blue; primary- 

 coverts and quilk dark brown, edged on the outer web with blue ; 

 tail dark brown, tlie feathers margined with greenish blue and white 

 at the base of all but the two centre ones, which only have the 

 shaft white : in front of the eye a black spot ; under surface of body 

 indigo-blue, inclining to greyish blue on the lower flanks and abdo- 

 men ; the lower abdomen and vent slightly whitish ; under tail- 

 coverts dusky, with whitish edges to the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts ashy brown, edged with blue, the edge of the wing brighter 

 blue ; "bill black ; legs black : irides dark brown " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3'05, tail 2-6, tarsus 0'75, 



Hab. Southern India. 



a. Ad. St. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. (Type 



of species.) 

 h. Ad. sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon. 



3. Stoparola concreta. 



Muscicapa concretus, Miiller, in Van der Hoeven's Tijdschr. 1835, 



p. 351. 

 II}-pothTiTnis concreta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 320. 

 Myiolestes concreta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 358. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dark blue, the 

 wing-coverts like the back, the great ;^r coverts browner, with a few 

 buft" spots at the tips (remains of young plumage) ; quiUs black, 

 externally washed with deep blue like the back ; tail dusky black, 

 slightly washed with blue on the edges, the four outer tail-feathers 

 for the most part white, increasing in an oblique manner on the 

 inner feathers, so as to reach nearly to the end of the inner web in 



