66. STPHIA. 449 



a. S ad. sk. Madras. Sir Walter Elliot [P.]. 



h. (S ad. sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. (Type 



of species.) 



c. 5 ad. .sk. Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



<l, e. J 2 ad. sk. Madras. Purchased. 



f. c? ad. sk. Madras. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



g. d ad. sk. Mahabaleshwar hills. Colonel Start [P.J. 

 h. d imm. sk. Sassowlie, Jan. 18G9. Colonel Sturt [P-J. 



i, k. tS $ ad. sk. Sursve, Kattiawar, April Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



0/1871. (6/. Ibis,/. e.) 



I, »i- d 2 ad. sk. Oopleta, Kattiawar, Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



Dec. 18, 1871. 

 n, 0. d 2 ad. St. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



J}. Juv. sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 q, r. d2 ad.sk. Opate Forest, S.W. Cey- Capt. Vincent Legge [P.]. 



Ion, April 23, 1873. 

 s. d ad.sk. Tanamalvilla, S.E. Cey- Capt. Vincent Legge [P.]. 



Ion, July 4, 1873. 

 t, u. d 2 ad. sk. Near Newara Eliya.. Mr. E. Boate [CI. 



V. 2 ad. sk. Kaudy hills. A. Whyte, Esq. [C.]. 



IV, .>: d ad. sk. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



«/. d ad. sk. Ponsee, Kakhven hills. Dr. J. Anderson [C.J. 



March 15, 1808. 

 a. d ad. sk. Ponsee, April 23, 1868. Dr. J. Anderson [C.J. 



a', d ad. sk. Saigon, Cochin China. M. E. Pierre [P.J. 



7. Sipliia banyumas. 



Muscicapa banyumas, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 146 ; id. Zool. 



Hesearches in Java, pi. 

 ]\Iuscicapa rufigastra, liaffi. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. .312. 

 Muscicapa cantatvix, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. ■2-2^ ( d only). 

 Niltava banyumas, Gra;/, Gen. B. i. p. 264 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 325, 



no. 4879 ; Brih/c/em. Abhandl. nat. Vereine Bremen, v. p. (?8. 

 Cyornis banyumas, Bp. Consp. i. p. 320 ; Horxf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 290; Bernst. J. f. On;. '18.39, p. 265; Pe'z. 



Iteis. Xovara, Vn;/. pp. 78, 161 ; WahLn, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 117; 



Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 130 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 107 ; id. Ibis, 



1877, p. 18 ; Brii(/(/em. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 458 ; 



Ticeeddale, P. Z. .y.'l878, p. 615 (cJ only). 

 Cyornis simplex, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 105 ( $ ).« 



Adult male. General colour above uniform blue, the forehead 

 brighter blue, extending backwards over the eye ; ear-coverts deep 

 blue ; a narrow frontal line from the base of the nostrils, lores, 

 feathers round the eye, chin, and fore part of cheeks black ; re- 

 mainder of under surface of body rich orange-rufous, a little paler 

 and inclining to white on the abdomen ; sides of upper breast and 

 thighs blue ; wing-coverts blue like the back, the least and median 

 series brighter blue, of about the same colour as the forehead and 

 eyebrow; quills dusky brown, externally blue, the inner secondaries 



* The type of C. simpler is in the Lf yJen Museum, where I recently ex- 

 amined it. 



