454 MUSCICAPID.T5. 



more smalt-blue ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts black, -with a 

 shade of blue on the latter ; wings deep blue, the quills dusky blackish, 

 edged with blue on the outer web ; tail-feathers deep blue, blackish 

 internally ; throat and breast orange, lighter on the former, the sides 

 of the chest rich ultramarine ; remainder of under surface of body 

 and under tail-coverts white ; sides of body and under wing-coverts 

 orange-buff; thighs deep blue; "bill dusky; legs pale whitish" 

 (Jerdon). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*55, wiug 3"1, tail 2"5, 

 tarsus 0-7. (Mus. H. J. Elives.) 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, the head and 

 nape ashy brown, washed slightly with olive ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts ashy brown ; lores dull white ; round the eye a conspicuous 

 ring of dull white plumes ; wing-covcrts like the back, the greater 

 coverts and the quills brown, externally washed with reddish olive ; 

 primar^'-coverts dusky brown, contrasting with the rest of the wing; 

 upiier tail-coverts ratlicr more rufesecnt than the rest of the back ; 

 tail olivaceous, strongly washed with rufous, especially near the base 

 o£thc feathers ; under surface light orange-buii, the chin, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; thighs dusky brown ; under wing- 

 coverts like the breast. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0"55, wing- 

 s' 75, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-7. {Mtis. U. J. Elwes.) 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, extending into Southern Tcnasserim. 



fl. c? ad. sk. Native Sikhim, June 1873. L. Mandelli, Esq. [P.]. 



6, e. c? ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



14. Siphia rufigula. 



Cyomis rufigula, WaU. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 470; Wolden, Tr. Z. S. vii. 



p. 66, pi. 7. fig. 3. 

 Siphia rufitrula, B/i/th, Ibis, 18(36, p. 372. 

 Niltava rufigula, Grat/, Haml-l. B. i. p. 326, no. 4887. 



Adult male. General colour above uniform slaty blue, the wing- 

 coverts uniform with the back, with no brighter patch on the shoulder 

 or upper tail-coverts ; quills dusky brown, externally of the same 

 colour as the back ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with slatj' grey 

 on the margins ; lores, ear-coverts, and sides of face slaty black ; 

 entire throat and breast rich orange-rufous, the rest of the under 

 ■ surface and under tail-coverts white; sides of body light orange- 

 outer web ; all the secondaries, tertiaries, and their greater and median coverts 

 margined with pale ferruginous on their outer webs ; tail hair-brown, tbe 

 feathers tinged on their outer webs, towards the bases, with the same rufescent 

 brown as the upper tail-coverts ; an indistinct pale-brown streak runs down on 

 either side, dividing the white patch at the base of the lower mandible from 

 the white medial portion of the chin and throat ; the breast, sides, and flanks 

 are pale brown, more or less margined and streaked with pale rufous-bufi'; the 

 wing-lining and axillaries and the inner margins of the quills towards their 

 bases pale rufous-buff; the abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts white ; the 

 tail is even ; the tarsi and feet are, perhaps, slightly slenderer than in deqans; 

 the bill is a great deal broader than in that species, almost exactly the same size 

 as in tickcUia. {Hume.) 



Hah. Sikhim. 



