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the second and third ; forehead and feathers over the eye dull coljalt, 

 brighter than the head ; a frontal line of black ; nasal bristles, lores, 

 and feathers in front of and below the eye black ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts, as well as the throat and breast, deep blue ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts white, shaded with ash}- grey on the lower 

 breast and Hanks ; thighs deep blue ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ashy grey, with a wash of deep blue ; quills below black. 

 Total length (5 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3'45, tail 2'5, tarsus 0'95. 

 {Mus. Lugd.) 



Achdt femaJe. Dillerent from the male. Rufous-brown above; 

 rump-feathers white ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; tail-feathers rufoiis- 

 brown, the outer feathers oldiquely white, as in the male ; wings 

 rufous, the inner webs dusky brown ; lores buffj' white, the feathers 

 tipped with dusky ; sides of face and ear-coverts rufous, with fulvous 

 shaft-streaks ; throat rufous-ochre, succeeded by a largo patch of 

 white on the lower throat ; chest ochraceous brown, as also the sides 

 of the body ; the abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white, the 

 former faintly washed with ochre ; under wiug-covcrts ochraceous 

 brovni ; quills dusky brown below, more ashy along the edge of the 

 inner webs. Total length 6'2 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3*o, tail '2-5, 

 tarsus (yd. (Mus. Lii//d.) 



Hah. Sumatra. 



4. Stoparola melanops. 



Muscicapa melanops, Tigors, P. Z. S. 18ol, p. 171; Gould, Cent. 



Hiinal. B. pi. 6 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. l-l 

 Muscicapa thala.ssina, Swains, [ubi?). 

 Muscipeta lapis, Less. Rev. Zool. 18.39, p. 104. 

 Niltava melanops, Gray, Gen. li. i. p. 2C4 ; id. Hatid-l. B. i. p. 32G, 



no. 4894. 

 Hypothymis melanops, Gray, Cat. Mamm. i^r. Nepal Coll. Hodys. 



p. 48; Bp. Consp. i. p. 320; Horsf. 8/- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 292. 

 Stoparola tbalassina, Blijth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 125. 

 Stoparola melanops, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 174 ; Striidi. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 381 ; Hume, Xests and Eqqs Ind. B. p. 208; Adam, Str. 



F. 1874, p. 338; Ball, t.c. p. 405"; David ^- Oustai. Ois. Chine, 



p. 116; Butler, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 230; Hume ^-Davison, op. cit. 



1878, p. 227. 

 Hypothymis thalassina, Bp. Consp. i. p. 320. 

 Glaucomyias thalassina. Cab. Mus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 5.3, note. 

 Glaucomyias melanops, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 53, note. 

 Eumvias'melanops, Horsf. cy Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 422; 



Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 463 ;" Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 289 ; Cock S, Marsh. 



Str. F. 1873, p. 352 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, p. 257 ; Armst. t. c. 



p. 323 ; Hume, t. c. p. 396 ; Blyth f Wald. B. Burm. p. 104. 

 Niltava thalassina, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4895. 

 Niltava spilonota, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4898 (descr. nulla). 



Adult. General colour above verditer-blue, with a greenish shade 

 on the back and scapulars ; wing-coverts rather brighter blue than 

 the back, more cobalt, the quills blackish on the inner web, bright 

 cobalt on the outer, the inner secondaries almost entirely cobalt; 



