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Some females have a well-marked bluish-grey supercilium, and 

 others are without it. 



The young resemble the female, and have the orange patch on 

 each side of the body and also a blue tail and rump, but the upper 

 plumage is everywhere streaked with fulvous as well as the sides 

 of the head and the throat. 



Bill black ; legs and feet deep brown ; iris brown (Hume). 



Length nearly 6 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3*3 ; tarsus 1-05 ; bill from 

 gape - G. 



J. cyanura is an allied species from Northern Asia. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Grilgit and Kashmir generally 

 to Sikhim ; the Khasi hills ; Tipperah ; Mauipur. This species is 

 found up to 11,000 feet in the Himalayas in summer, and 

 descends to lower levels in winter. 



Habits, SfC Breeds in May and June, constructing a nest of 

 moss and grass in holes in banks and under tree-roots, and laying 

 four eggs, which are white with a green tinge, spotted sparingly 

 round the larger end with minute specks of reddish brown, and 

 measuring about -71 by - 56. 



655. Ianthia indica. The White-browed Bush-Robin. 



Sylvia indica, Vieill. N. Diet. cVHid. Nat. xi, p. 267 (1817). 



Neniura flavo-olivacea, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 27. 



Tarsiger supevciliaris, Hodgs., Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 76 ; Horsf. $ 



M. Cat. i, p. 311 ; Hume, Cat. no. 510. 

 Erythaca flavo-olivacea, Blgth, Cat. p. 171. 

 Iauthia superciliaris {Hodgs.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 148 ; Blanf. J. A. S. 



B. xli, pt. ii, p. 161. 

 Tarsiger indicus (Vieill.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 259. 



The Rufous-bellied Bush- Chat, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage dull slaty blue ; a 

 very well-defined supercilium from the point of the forehead to 

 the nape white ; lores and in front and under the eye black ; sides 

 of the head blackish blue ; coverts and quills dark brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow, the coverts next the body more or less suffused 

 with blue f tail black, suffused with blue on the outer webs ; lower 

 plumage orange-rut'ous, the sides of the throat mottled with white 

 and the middle of the abdomen whitish. 



Female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with 

 fulvous on the rump ; a partially-concealed white supercilium 

 extending to the nape ; sides of the head and a ring round the eye 

 ochraceous, mottled with whitish; wings and tail brown, edged 

 with the colour of the back; entire lower plumage ochraceous, 

 tinged with rufous on the breast and paler on the abdomen. 



1 have not been able to examine a young bird of this species. 



Bill black ; legs pale horny-brown ; iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length about 6; tail 2-9; wing 3-2; tarsus 145; bill from 

 gape -7. 



Distribution. Nepal and Sikhim, extending into Western China. 

 There are few birds about which so little is known as this species. 



