106 TTJRDIDiE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Sides of body orange- chestnut, contrasting 



with remainder of lower plumage I. rufilata, p. 108. 



b. Sides of body of same colour as remainder of 



lower plumage. 



a'. A white supercilium /. indica, p. 107. 



b'. No white supercilium I. hyperythra, p. 108. 



654. Ianthia rufilata. The Hal -flanked Bush-Robin. 



Nemura rufilatus, Hodys. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 27 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, 

 p. .99; Hume, N. <§■ E. p. 324 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 198. 



Ianthia rufilata (Hodys.), Blyth, Cat. p. 170 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, 

 pt. ii, p. 52; Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 77; id. S. F. iii, 

 p. 240 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 68. 



Ianthia cyanura (Pall.), apud Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 146 ; Sloliczka, J. A. 

 S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 44. 



Nemura cyanura (Pall.), apud Hume, Cat. no. 508 ; Scully, S. F. viii, 

 p. 304 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 64. 



Tarsiger rutilatus {Hodys.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 256 ; Scully, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 446. 



The White-breasted Blue Wood-Chat, Jerd. ; Manyzhil-pho, Lepch. 



Fig. 31. — Head of I. rufilata. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and a broad eyebrow, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, aud the median wing-coverts bright ultramarine-blue ; 

 eai-coverts, lores, and round the eye black ; upper plumage, edges 

 of wing-coverts and quills, sides of the head, throat, and neck 

 extending down to the sides of the breast deep purplish blue ; tail 

 black, the outer webs suffused with deep blue ; chin, throat, middle 

 of breast, and remaining lower plumage white, sullied with ashy 

 brown on the breast ; a very large and conspicuous patch of 

 orange-chestnut on each side of the hody ; under wing- coverts and 

 axillaries white. 



Males from Sikhim are very bright ; those from other parts have 

 the upper plumage a greenish blue. 



Female. Upper plumage olive-brown, the coverts and wiugs 

 edged with rufous ; rump greenish blue ; upper tail-coverts deep 

 blue ; tail dark brown, the outer webs suffused with deep blue ; 

 chin and throat narrowly white ; sides of the head and neck and 

 the whole breast ochraceous ; a large patch of orange-chestnut on 

 each side of the body ; remainder of the sides ochraceous ; middle 

 of abdomen aud under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pale yellowish buff. 



