14 MUSCICAPID^. 



white on the fore neck; middle of the abdomen whitish ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 rufous-ashy. 



Bill black ; legs light brown ; iris deep brown (Limbory). 



Length about 7 ; tail 3 ; wing 3 - 6 ; tarsus *9 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim up to 5000 feet. 

 This species has also been found on the mountains of Perak in the 

 Malay peninsula. 



Habits, Sfc. A forest bird, fouud constantly on trees, and never 

 descending to the ground. 



565. Cyornis hodgsoni. The Rusty-breasted Blue Flycatcher. 



Siphia erythacus, Jerd. <§• Blyth, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 201 (nee Blyth) ; 



Jerd. B. I. i, p. 480 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 458 ; Godiu.-Aust. J. A. 



6'. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 158; Hume, S. F. v, p. 137 ; Hume 8f Bar. 



S. F. vi, pp. 233, 510; Hume, Cat. no. 322; id. S. F. xi, p. 115. 

 Siphia hodgsonii, Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi, Bull. p. 34 (1870), vii, p. 29 ; 



David, op. cit. ix, pi. 4, fig. 4. 

 Erythrosterna sordida, Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 158 



(1874) ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 302. 

 Poliomyias hodgsoni (Verr.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 203 ; Oates, 



B. B. i, p. 286. 

 The Busty-breasted Flycatcher, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage slaty blue ; lores, 

 cheeks, under the eye, and the upper tail-coverts black ; sides of 

 the head aud neck slaty blue ; wing-coverts brown edged with 

 cyaueous ; quills black edged with brown ; tail black, the base of 

 all the feathers except the middle pair white ; chin, throat, breast, 

 and abdomen orange-chestnut; lower abdomen, vent, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts pale ferruginous. 



Female. Upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with fulvous on the 

 upper tail-coverts ; tail brown, edged on the basal half with fulvous- 

 brown ; wing-coverts and quills brown edged with fulvous-brown, 

 and the greater coverts tipped with the same ; lores whitish ; a pale 

 ring round the eye ; sides of the head olive-brown tinged with 

 rufous ; lower plumage ashy brown, the abdomen whitish. 



The young bird is not known. 



The legs and feet vary from dusky liver-brown to plain dark 

 brown ; the bill in one bird entirely black, in other two blackish, 

 horny grey on base and lower ridge of rami of lower mandible ; 

 iris deep brown (Hume). 



Length about 5*5 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus "65 ; bill from gape 

 •55. 



C. luteola is an allied species found outside our limits and differs 

 chieily in having a considerable amount of white on the wing-coverts 

 of both sexes. It was to this species that Blyth first applied the 

 name Siphia erythaca (J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 126, 1847). Subse- 

 quently he and Jerdon reapplied this name to the Indian species, 

 for which, under these circumstances, the term erythaca cannot be 

 used. 



