6G. siPHiA, 441 



a wash of greenish grey, rather more distinct on the head ; forehead 

 and feathers over the eye cobalt ; -vving-coverts like the back, the 

 outer ones of the lesser series tinged with blighter cobalt ; quills 

 and greater coverts dusky brown, externally edged with greyish 

 blue, much broader on the secondaries, where it has somewhat of a 

 glaucous tint ; tail-feathers brown, slightly washed with greyish 

 blue on the edges ; sides of face, throat, breast, and sides of body 

 dusky grey, like the upper surface ; the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts whitish, the thighs dusky grey tipped with white ; a narrow 

 frontal line, feathers in front of and below the eye, as well as those 

 at angle of mouth and base of chin, black ; the sides of the face and 

 upper throat slightly washed with cobalt ; under wing-coverts white, 

 the edge of the wing light bluish ; quills dull ashy brown below, 

 dull brownish along the inner web ; " bill black ; legs and feet 

 blackish lead-colour; iris dull reddish brown" {Leijgc, MS.). 

 Total length 5-S inches, culmen U'O, wing 3-05, tail 2-6, tarsus U-7o. 



Young. I'pper surface and wing- coverts brown, with buff tip3 

 to the feathers ; the chin is buff, and the lower surface, as in the 

 adult, mingled with yellowish-grey feathers. {Legge.) 



Hah. Ceylon. 



a. <S ad. sk. Knuckles, Cevlon, 4500 feet^ Capt. W, Vincent Legge 



Nov. 25, 1670. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Kaudy hills. A. Whyte, Esq. [C.]. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Ceylou. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Marquis of Tweeddale [P.]. 



66. SIPHIA. 



Type. 



Siphia, Hodgson, Ind. Seiiew, i. p. 651 (1837) S. stropliiata. 



Uimorpha, Hodr/s. J. A. S. B. x. p. 29 (1841) S. strophiata. 



Cvornis, Bhjth, 'j. A. S. B. xii. p. 941 (1842) S. rubeculoides. 



Ochroniela, BIyth, J. A. H. B. xvi. p. 128 (1847) S. nigrorufa. 



Schwaneria, Bj). Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 54 . . S. caeruleata. 



Meuetica, Cab. J.f. O. 1866, p. 392 S. strophiata. 



Leg of Sii)hia hanyumas. 



Bange. India and Ceylon, ranging through the Burmese countries 

 to Eastern China and down the Malayan peninsula to the Sunda 

 Islands, the Philippines, and Timor group. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Above blue. 



a'. Entire throat and breast blue. 



a". Bully and under tail-coverts orange- 

 rufous hyucinthina S , p. 443. 



TOL. IV. 2g 



