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1. Digenea leucomelannra. (Plate XIII.) 



Sipliia ? leucomelura, Hodgs. Icon, ined., Passeres, pi. 215 {Hodrjs. 



no. 419). 

 Digoiiea leiicomelainira, Hodr/g. Icon, ined., Passeres, App. pi. 11.3; id. 



m Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 84 ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. ^6 ; Grai/, Vat. 



Mamm. ^c. Nepal Coll. Hodys. p. 92 : Horsf. &• Moore, Vat. B. 



Mus. E.I. Vo. i. p. 294. 



.Sipliia leueoraelaiuira, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 126 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 172; Jerd. B. Iitd. i. p. 479; Brooks, Sir. F. 1875, 

 p. 235. 



Siphia tricolor, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 126 ; id. Cat. B. 3Ii/s. A. S. 



B. p. 172; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 478; Brooks, Sir. F. 1877, p. 471. 

 Diiiiorpha leiicomelamira, lip. Consp. i. p. yl9. 



Diuiorpha tricolor, Bp. Consp. i. p. 310. 



Niltava, sp., Grai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 327, no. 4905. 



Niltava leucomelannra, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 327, no. 4906. 



Siphia minuta, Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 110 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 470. 



Adult male. Above dull slatj' blue, brighter and more asbj' blue 

 on the forehead and crown ; ear-coverts dark slaty blue, a narrow 

 frontal line, lores, feathers in front of and below the eye, and the 

 fore part of the checks slaty black, shading into the dark grey of 

 the ear-coverts ; wing-coverts slaty blue like the back, the greater 

 series blackish brown, externally washed with slaty blue, the inner 

 secondaries coloured like the greater coverts, and washed with slaty 

 blue in the same manner ; primaries brown, edged with lighter and 

 somewhat more ochraceous brown ; upper tail-coverts darker than 

 the back ; tail black, white at the base, the two centre feathers 

 entirely black ; throat white ; remainder of under surface of body 

 ashy grey, the tlanks dull greyish, the sides of the upper breast slaty 

 blue, the centre of the abdomen white ; under tail-coverts dusky 

 blackish, with longitudinal white central streaks ; thighs duisky 

 greyish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ochraceous, with 

 blackish bases to the feathers ; quills ashy brown below, with light 

 fulvesccnt edges to the inner webs ; " bill dusky ; feet brown ; iris 

 dark brown " (Jerdon). Total length 4-G inches, culmen 0-4, wing 

 2-45, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-75. 



Ad idt female. Above olive-brown, rather more rirfous on the fore- 

 head, and inclining to fulvescent brown on the rump ; upper tail- 

 covorts and tail chestnut, tlie latter browner at the tip, and having 

 indistinct transverse lines under certain lights ; lesser wing-coverts 

 olive-brown like the back, the median and greater scries dark brown, 

 edged with rufous and tip^ied with a light rufous spot on each ; 

 ([uills dark brown, externally edged with rufous, more broadly on 

 the secondaries ; in front of the eye a dull whitish spot ; sides of 

 face olive-brown, darker on the car-coverts; the feathers round the 

 eye fulvescent, the cheeks and fore part of ear-coverts mottled with 

 spots of ochraceous bufl' ; throat light ochraceous brown, lighter in 



