462 MUSCICAPID^. 



washed with chestniit on the outer webs ; forehead, lores, feathers 

 over the eye, sides of face, cheeks, sides of throat, and a sijot at base 

 of chin rufous ; throat and fore neck pure white, surrounded by a 

 line of black ; breast rufous-ochre ; centre of the breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts white, washed with ochraceous brown, especially 

 on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; thighs ochraceous brown ; 

 under wing-coverts white, washed with brown ; quills dusky brown 

 below, more ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5 

 inches, culmen O'-to, wing 2-05, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. (Mus. Lii'jcl.) 



Aduh female. Like the male, the head a little more rufous and 

 not so dark brown. Total length 4-S inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-6, 

 tail 1-95, tarsus 0-8. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Hub. Island of Sumatra. 



a. (S «id. sk. Siiigalong, Sumatra Leyden Museum [P.]. (One 



{S. 3Iii!ler). of the typical specimens.) 



68. NILTAVA. „ 



Type. 



Niltava, Hoclr/s. Ind. Revtexv, i. p. 650 (1837) N. sundara. 



Chaitaris, Hudgs. J. A. S. B. x. p. 29 (1841) N. sundara. 



Bainopus, Uodgs. in Gray's Znol. Misc. p. 84 (1844) .... N. grandis. 



Range. Himalaya Mountains, extending through the Burmese 

 countries to Southern China and Formosa. 



Key to the Sj^tecies. 

 Males. 



a. Beneath orange-rufous. 



a'. Throat black or blue-black sundara, p. 4(i3. 



h'. Throat washed with bright purplish blue .... vivida, p. 464. 

 h. Breast dusky greyish or cindery grey, slightly 

 washed with purple. 

 c'. Much larger ; forehead black ; crown smalt- 

 blue ; imder wing -coverts dusky, like the 



breast grandis, p. 464. 



d'. Very much smaller ; forehead bright smalt- 

 blue, hke fore part of crown ; under wing- 

 coverts white macgrigorire, p. 46"J. 



Females. 



a. With no blue spot on the side of the neck virida, p. 464. 



fi. With a spot of bright blue on the sides of the 

 neck. 

 a'. Smaller ; with a white throat-spot. 



a". Larger ; wing 3'1 inches : under wing- 

 coverts ochraceous buti' sundara, p. 463. 



//'. Smallest; wing 2*43 inches: under wing- 

 coverts white macgrigorifv, p. 465. 



b'. Much larger; wing .3-9 inches : throat rufous- 

 ochre grandis, p. 4U5. 



