CYANECULA. 147 



Zuol, S)-c., Sind, p. 152; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mns. vol. v. p. 342; 

 Ruticilla plioeiaicuroides, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1854, p. 25, pi. Ivii.; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 136; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 221. Ruticilla erjthroprocta, 

 Gould, apnd. Hume and Render. Lahore to Yarkand, p. 208 ; apud. 

 Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. — The Indian Redstart. 



Adult Male. — Crown of head ashy grey ; throat, neck, lores, ear- 

 coverts, breast, back and wing-coverts dark brown or black, the 

 feathers edged greyish; wings dusky brown; the primaries and secon- 

 daries margined rufescent on their outer webs ; breast, flanks, under 

 wing-coverts, belly, rump, upper and lower tail-coverts and tail (except 

 the inner, and part of the outer webs of the two central feathers, which 

 are dark brown) uniform chestnut. The female is brownish above ; the 

 edge of the wings, belly, and inner tail-coverts pale rufous; bill and legs 

 dark brown ; irides brown. 



Length. — 6 inches, wing 3"3, tail 2'5, bill at front 0"55. 



Hab. — India generally. Breeds in North China, Mongolia and Eastern 

 Turkistan. Occurs in Sind, Beloochistan, South East Persia and 

 Afghanistan during winter; also in Nepaul, Kashgar, Behar, N. W. 

 Himalayas, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, North Guzerat, the Concan 

 and Deccan to South India. 



Gen. Cyanecula. — Brehm. ; Erithacus, Cuv. 



Bill short, slender; rictal bristles small or obsolete; tarsi notscutel- 

 late ; nostrils at base in a groove ; wings moderate ; 3rd and 4th quills 

 longest. 



Cyanecula suecica, Lin. Sijs. Nat.i.p. 3SQ{partim) Brehm. Vogt. 

 Deutschl. p. 350 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 182 ; Ileugl. Orn. N. O.Afr. i.'p. 

 336; Shelley, B. Egypt; Blf. East. Persia,\\.-g. 169; Hume and Davison, 

 8tr. F. vi. p. 337 ; ^Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 433; Murray, S. F. vii. 

 p. 112; id. Hdbh., Zo'oi., Src, Sind, p. 152; Shelley, Ibis, 1881, Str. 

 F. ix. p. 330 ; viii. 304. Erithacus cteruleculus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso. 

 Asiai. \. p. 480 ; Seebolun, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 308. Cyanecula 

 cferuleculus, {Fall.) Bp. Consp. i. p. 296; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 223; 

 Jerd. Birds Ind. ii. p. 152. No. 514.— The Indian Blue-Throat. 



Head, neck, back, wings and wing-coverts pale bi'own ; the feathers 

 of the head slightly centred darker, and the wing-coverts and quills 

 edged paler ; lores dark brown ; superciliura bufFy white ; chin, cheek, 

 throat and breast, cobalt blue, with a large ferruginous or chestnut 

 spot in the centre of the throat and breast ; below the blue of the breast, 

 a black band, followed by a chestnut one ; rest of under surface buflfy 

 white ; tail rufous or pale ferruginous, the two centre feathers and the 

 terminal third of the others dark brown, lighter on the outermost ; ear- 

 coverts silky rufescent brown; bill dusky; gape yellow; legs dusky 

 brown ; irides dark brown. 



Length. — 5*5 to 6-5 inches, wing 3, tail 2 to 2-25. The female is 

 like the male, but without the pectoral gorget ; the throat, chin and 

 neck bufty white, with a line of dusky brown from the base of the side 



