4G4 MUSCICAPIDJi. 



Adult male. Above deep purplish blue, inclining to brilliant 

 smalt-bluo on the top of the head, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; a narrow frontal line, lores, and feathers in front of 

 the eye black ; ear-coverts blue-black ; wing-coverts purplish blue, 

 a little brighter than the back ; quills black, washed externally with 

 purplish blue ; tail black, the feathers deep smalt-blue on the outer 

 web, the two centre feathers entirely smalt-blue ; under surface 

 of body orange-chestnut, excepting the throat, which is deep ultra- 

 marine or purplish blue ; lower flanks silky white, orange-rufous at 

 tip ; thighs blackish ; sides of breast black, washed with purplish 

 blue ; under wing-coverts orange-rufous like the breast ; quills dusky 

 below, greyish along the inner web ; " bill black ; legs and feet 

 dark brown, purplish brown, purplish plumbeous : iris deep brown" 

 {Davison). Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-25, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, with a grey 

 shade on the mantle ; head dull grey ; wing-coverts and quills dusky 

 brown, with ochraceous-olive margins; upper • tail-coverts clearer 

 olive ; tail-feathers dark brown, externally olive ; lores, base of 

 forehead, and feathers round the eye deep ochraceous buff; ear- 

 coverts ashy olive, with fulvous shaft-lines ; throat ochraceous buff ; 

 the sides of the neck, breast, and sides of the body ashy olive ; the 

 centre of the breast washed with ochraceous buff, the under tail- 

 coverts entirely of the latter colour ; centre of abdomen whitish ; 

 thighs olive-brown ; under wing-coverts ochraceous buff ; quills 

 sepia-brown below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 5'8 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-3, tail 2-4, tarsus 0*75. 



Hub. Formosa ; Tenasserim Provinces. 



a. cS ad. sk. Formosa, March 1866. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



(Spec, figured, /. c.) 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Formosa, March 1866. E. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Niltava grandis. 



Chaitaris grandis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 189, xii. p. 940. 



Niltava grandis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 264 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. 



p. 424; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 174; Bp. Consp. i. p. 819; 



jSorsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mtis. E.I. Co. i. p. 288; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 476 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 825, no. 4877 ; Godw.-Austen, J. A. 



S. B. 1870, p. 101 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 475 ; id. Nests and 



Eggs Ind. B. p. 215 ; Blyth 8^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 102 ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1877, p. 103 ; id. ^- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 232. 

 Bainopus irenoides, Hodgs. Icon, ined., Passeres, pi. 211, et App. 



pi. 105 {Hodgs. no. 284) ; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 84. 

 Bainopus grandis, G)-ay, Cat. Mamm. 8fc. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 91. 



Adult male. General colour above dark purplish blue, the crown 

 and nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts smalt-blue ; least upper 

 wing-coverts smalt-blue, the rest of the coverts and the quills 

 blackish, externally washed with blue ; tail-feathers purplish blue, 

 all but the two centre ones internally black ; forehead, lores, feathers 

 above the eye, ear-coverts, sides of face, and entire thro:it and fore 



