3. EUCICHLA. 445 



pure white terminal band; lesser coverts and outer secondaries like 

 the back : beneath, throat and spot on each side of the head pure 

 white ; breast black, passing into purple and blue on the belly ; 

 under wing-coverts black ; bill black ; feet brown : whole length 

 6 inches, wing 3-5, tail 1-4. Female. Above dull crimson, wings 

 blackish brown, coverts edged with white, as in male ; tail blue : 

 beneath dirty browu, throat white. 

 Hah. Borneo. 



a. Ad. st. Borneo. Purchased. 



b, c. rf $ ad. sk. Sandakan, N.E. Borneo. Gould Coll. 



d. 2 sk - N.W. Borneo. Sir H. Low [C.]. 



3. EUCICHLA. ^ 



Type. 

 Eucichla, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 2 (1859) E. cyanura. 



This section embraces what are, perhaps, the most gorgeously 

 coloured species of the family. Although the tail in E. gurneyi 

 and E. ellioti is not so long and pointed as in E. cyanura and its 

 allies, I follow Gould in placing the two first-named species in the 

 same genus as the latter, to which they are obviously related in 

 style of colour. 



Eucichla is found in Tenasserim, Burmah, Siam, Cochin, the Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Crown black ; tail longer. 



a. Whole abdomen transversely striped 1. cyanura, p. 445. 



b. Centre of abdomen purple : 



j breast yellow, with transverse bars 2. schwaneri, p. 446. 



) breast dark purple 3. boschi, p. 447. 



B. Crown blue ; tail shorter : 



j breast ashy green 4. ellioti, p. 448. 



) breast black 5. gurneyi, p. 448. 



1. Eucichla cyanura. 



Merle de la Guiane, Daub. PL Ent. 355. 



Turdus cvanurus, Bodd. Table d. PL Enl. p. 21 (1783) ; Gm. S. N. 



i. p. 82*8; Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 301. 

 Myiothera cyanura, Cur. Begn. An. i. p. 357 (1817). 

 Pitta cyanura, Vieill. Nouv. Bid. iv. p. 356 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 685 ; 



id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 246, pi. 153 ; Lesson, Tr. d'Om. p. 394 ; Viy. Mem. 



Baffles, p. 659 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. p. 157 ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 



Off, 



Mus. P.-B. Pitta, p. "" 

 (1874) CBeavan, P. Z. S 



pi. 6. figs. 1, 2, 3j id. Mm. P.-B. Pitta, p. 13 (1863), et p. 16 

 ?. 1866, p. 4 ; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. xxix. ; 



