40 MUSCICAPID.E. 



Key to the Species. 



a. "Wing 4 inches or longer N. (/ranch's, p. 40. 



b. Wing not much exceeding 3 inches or less. 

 a'. Under wing-coverts and axillaries chest- 

 nut or buff N. sundara, p. 41. 



b . Under wing-coverts and axillaries white 



or ashy white N. macgrigoriee, p. 42. 



593. Niltava grandis. The Large Niltava. 



Chaitaris grandis, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xi, p. 189 (1842). 



Niltava grandis (Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 174 ; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, 



p. 28S ; Jerri. B. I. i, p. 476 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 215 ; Hume 8f 



Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 232 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 464 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 316 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 113 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 297 ; id. in Hume's 



N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 18. 



The Large Fairy Blue-Chat, Jerd.; Margong, Lepch. 



Fig. 17.— Bill of N. grandis. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 lesser and median wing-coverts, and a large patch on each side of 

 the neck brilliant cobalt-blue ; back and scapulars purplish blue ; 

 middle tail-feathers purplish blue, the others brown on the inner 

 web and blue ou the outer ; greater coverts and quills black, 

 narrowly edged with blue ; feathers at base of upper mandible, 

 lores, sides of the head, chin, throat, and upper breast black ; 

 lower breast dull blue ; abdomen bluish ashy, the under tail-coverts 

 fringed with whitish. 



Female. Forehead, lores, round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 fulvous, with pale shafts ; crown and nape ashy brown ; a patch on 

 each side of the neck bright blue ; back and rump fulvous-brown ; 

 tail and wings dark brown, with the outer webs suffused with deep 

 rufous ; the whole lower plumage rich olive-brown, the feathers of 

 the throat and breast with whitish shafts ; the middle of the chin 

 and throat clear buff, and of the abdomen ashy ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries buff. 



The young nestling is dark brown, streaked with fulvous ; wings 

 and tail as in the female. 



Iris deep brown ; in the male the bill is black, the legs and feet 

 black or very dark plumbeous ; in the female the bill is brownish 

 black, the legs, feel, and claws fleshy-pink (Hume Sf Davison). 



