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Key to the Specie*. 



a. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white 11. azurea, p. 4 ( J. 



b. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts blue /i". tyileri, p. 50. 



601. Hypothymis azurea. The Indian BlacJc-naped Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa azurea, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 41 (1783). 



Myiagra casrulea ( Vieill.), Blyth, Cat. p. 204. 



Myiagra azurea {Bodd.), Horsf. fy M. Cat. \, p. 138 ; Jerd. B. I. i, 



p. 450 ; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 1*98. 

 Hypothymis azurea {Bodd.), Anders. Yunnan Exped., Ares, p. 055 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 290 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 274 ; Oates, B. B. 



i, p. 2G5 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 159 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 



2nd ed. ii, p. 27. 

 Hypothymis ceylonensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 277 (1879) ; 



Legye, Birds Ceyl. p. 408, pi. xviii. 



The Black-naped Blue Flycatcher, Jerd. ; Kala kat-katia, Beng. 



Fig. 20.— Bill of H. azurea. 



Coloration. Male. A patch on the uape, forehead, angle of the 

 chin, and a crescentic bar across the fore neck black ; abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts white, or faint bluish white ; re- 

 mainder of lower plumage azure-blue ; wings and coverts dark 

 brown edged with blue ; tail brown, suffused with blue on the 

 median pair of feathers and the outer webs of the others ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Female. Head above aznre-bliie ; sides of the head, chin, and 

 throat duller bine, the ear-coverts almost brown ; breast ashy 

 blue ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white tinged with 

 grey; wings, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown; tail 

 darker brown, the outer edges washed with blue. 



I have not been able to examine a nestling of this species. 



Iris dark brown ; eyelids plumbeous, the edges blue ; bill dark 

 blue, the edges and tip black; month yellow; legs plumbeous; 

 claws horn-colour. 



Length about 6*5 ; tail 3 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from gape 

 •75. 



H. ceylonensis, from Ceylon, is said to differ in the male wanting 

 the black bar across the throat, but I am of opinion that this 

 alleged difference does not really hold good. Ceylouese specimens 

 of this Flycatcher are not common in collections, but the British 

 Museum contains six males. Of these, five have no black throat- 

 bar, but they also have no nape-patch, which shows them to be 



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