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in the plains during the winter ; but in some portions of the latter 

 this Flycatcher appears to be a constant resident, Hume stating 

 that it breeds in Manipur, and Davison having found the nest in 

 Tenasserim near Te at the end of March. In Pegu it appeared 

 to me to be only a winter visitor. In the Malay peninsula this 

 species is replaced by C. elegans, in which the throat is a bright 

 blue. 



Habits, Sfc. Breeds in the Himalayas from April to June, con- 

 structing a nest of moss and lichens iu a hole of a tree, bank, or 

 rock. The eggs, three or four in number, are greenish or brownish 

 stone-colour, marked with purplish brown, and measure about '73 

 by -6. 



576. Cyornis tickelli. TickelVs Blue Flycatcher. 



Cvoruis b.inyumas (Horsf.), apud Blyth, Cat. p. 17-3 ; Horsf. $• M. 



" Cat. i, p. 290 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 466. 

 Cyornis tickellise, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 941 (1843) ; Jerd. B. I. 



i, p. 467; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 533; Lloyd, Ibis,' 1872, p. 197 ; 



Hume, N. 8f E. p. 212 ; id. S. F. Hi, p. 468. 

 Cyornis elegans (Temm.), apud Blyth, Cat. i, p. 173. 

 Cvoruis jerdoni, O. R. Gray, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 371 ; Hume, Cat. 



"no. 305. 

 Cyornis tickelli, Blyth, Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 620 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 306; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 164; Oates in Hume's N. fy 



E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 7. 

 Siphia tickellise (Bl.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 447; Legge, Birds 



Ceyl. p. 421 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 289. 

 HorsfieUV s Blue Redbreast, TickelVs Blue Redbreast, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Resembles the male of C. rubeculoides, but is 

 larger and of a duller colour ; the rufous of the breast runs up 

 into the throat and chin, leaving only the extreme point of the 

 latter black. 



Female. Resembles the male closely. The whole upper plumage, 

 sides of the head, coverts aud visible portions of the closed wings 

 and tail dull blue; forehead, eyebrow, and bend of wing shining 

 cobalt-blue; lores and feathers over the nostrils whitish; chin, 

 throat, and breast pale orange ; remainder of lower plumage, 

 whitish. 



The young are streaked with fulvous, and resemble the young of 

 the other members of the genus. 



Iris brown ; bill blackish ; legs and feet bluish brown, dusky 

 bluish, or bluish grey (Legge). 



Length nearly 6 ; tail 2-5 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from 

 gape "75. 



The few Tenasserim specimens I have seen agree well in colour 

 and size with Indian ones, but at Kossoom, in the Malay Penin- 

 sula, a very much smaller race occurs, which may hereafter be 

 thought worthy of separation under a distinct name. I have only 

 been able to examine four specimens, and cannot do more than 

 draw attention to the subject. 



