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Sir. F. vii, p. 516 ; id. Cat. no. 303 ; Salvador i, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. (2) vii, p. 386; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 107; Gates in Humes N. 

 $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 5. 

 Siphia unicolor (Bl. ), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 444. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, a broad eyebrow, and the lesser 

 wing-coverts ultramarine-blue; lores black, tipped with blue; 

 sides of the head and neck and the whole upper plumage, with the 

 exposed parts of the closed wing, light blue ; upper tail-coverts 

 and the margins of the tail-feathers deep blue ; lower plumage 

 pale dull blue, becoming albescent on the abdomen ; the under 

 tail-coverts broadly fringed with white ; axillaries pale fulvous. 



Female. Lores and a ring round the eye pale rufescent ; the 

 whole upper plumage olive-brown tinged with rufous ; the upper 

 tail-coverts and the margins of the wings, together with the whole 

 tail, ferruginous ; the whole lower plumage earthy brown, tinged 

 with ochraceous on the sides of the body ; abdomen albescent ; 

 axillaries pale fulvous. 



The young nestling is brown, densely spotted and mottled with 

 bright fulvous. 



In the male the legs and feet are dull pale purple ; bill black ; 

 iris brown. In the female the legs and feet are greyish brown ; 

 upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale bluish horny ; iris 

 brown {Hume). 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 2*8 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus '65 ; bill from 

 gape •75. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Sikhim to the Daphla hills in 

 Assam ; the Khtisi hills ; the Naga hills ; Manipur ; Karennee ; 

 probably Arrakan. 



C. cyanopolius, Blyth, from the Malay peninsula and islands, is 

 a much brighter bird than G. unicolor, and may be kept distinct. 



Habits, <$fc. Mandelli found the nest of this bird in Sikhim in 

 August, a cup of moss and fern-roots placed in a depression in the 

 trunk of a tree about 10 feet from the ground. 



575. Cyornis mbeculoides. The Blue -throated Fit/catcher. 



Phoenicura mbeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35 ; Gould, Cent. 



pi. 25, fig. 1. 

 Cyornis rubeculoides (Vig.), Blyth, Cat. p. 173 ; Horsf. ,y M. Cat. i, 

 p. 289; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 406; Hume, N. §■ E. p. 211 ; Hume # 

 Dav. S. F. vi, p. 227 ; Anders. Yunnan JZxped., Aves, p. 619 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 304 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 164 ; Hume, S. F. xi, 

 p. 107 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 5. 

 Siphia rubeculoides (Vig.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 445 ; Legge, 



Birds Ceyl. p. 424 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 287. _ 

 Cyornis dialilsema, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 387 

 " (1889). 



The Blue-throated Redbreast, Jerd.; Chatki. Beng. Manzhil-pho, 

 Lepch. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and a streak over the eye glis- 



