440 MISCICAPIDJE. 



Glaucomj'ias thalas.soides, Cub. Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 53, note ; Bp. 



a R. xxxviii. p. 651. 

 Niltava tliaJassoides, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4896. 

 Stoparola tlialassinoides, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 132 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1878, p. 416. 



Adult male. General colour verditer-blue, inclining to silvery 

 blue on the forehead, eyebrow, and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 a little brighter than the back, and inclining to silvery blue near 

 the bend of the wing ; quills black, externally bright cobalt, the 

 inner secondaries almost entirely of this colour ; tail deep blue, 

 black along the shaft , and on the inner web ; sides of face and 

 throat silvery cobalt ; a narrow frontal line, feathers in front of and 

 below the eye, and chm black ; rest of under surface of body dull 

 verditer-blue, a little more greenish on the abdomen and sides of 

 body ; the under tail-coverts obscurely edged with white ; under 

 wing-coverts like the breast ; quills below blackish ; " iris black " 

 (Doria). Total length o-G inclies, culmen 0-45, wing 3-05, tail 

 2-4, tarsus 0-6. 



Ilab. Sumatra, Borneo, Malayan peninsula. 



Malacca. M. A. Bouvier. 



Hugh Cuming, Esq. 

 Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Stoparola panayensis. 

 Eumyias pauayensis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Sue. new series, i. p. 326. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull verditer-blue, 

 rather brighter on the forehead and over the eye, forming an in- 

 distinct eyebrow ; least wing-coverts resembling the back, the 

 greater series and the quills blackish brown, externally edged with 

 dull verditer-blue ; tail-feathers blackish, also edged with verditer 

 on the outer web ; sides of face dull verditer, as also the whole of 

 the throat and breast, shading off into white on the abdomen and 

 flanks, the latter washed with blue ; fore part of the cheeks and 

 throat slightly varied with silvery tips to the feathers ; thighs and 

 under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white ; bUl black ; feet dark 

 brown. Total length 6 inches, ctdmen 0-55, wing 2-95, tail 2*45, 

 tarsus 0-7. (^i<^- J- S. Steere.) 



Hah. Island of Panay, Philippines. 



7. Stoparola sordida. 



Stoparola melanops, Lat/ard, Ann. N. H. xiii. p. 127 {nee V.). 

 Glaucomvias sordida, Wald. Ann. %■ Mmj. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 218 ; 



Hume,'Str. F. 1875, p. 401. 

 Niltava ceylonensis, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4897 {deso: nulla). 

 Eumyias sordida, Holdsio. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 441 ; Lcgye, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 18 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, i. p. .326. 



Adtdt male. General colour above dusky grey, with somewhat of 



