160 MYIAGRINA. 
to 3; tarsus, 0°6 to 0°75; bill from gape, 0°71 to 0°8; bill at 
front, 0°4. 
Bill dark cobalt-blue, edges and tip black, edges of eyelids blue ; 
eyelids plumbeous ; irides deep brown ; legs ranging from cobalt- 
blue to plumbeous. 
Above pale lazuline-blue, with the head and neck paler but 
brighter blue ; a large occipital spot of short erectile feathers, and 
a slender jugular one, silky-black ; throat, neck, and breast, pale 
blue ;, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts, bluish-white. 
The female is bluish-ashy above ; the head and neck pale blue, 
and the abdomen white ; and it has neither the occipital crestlet 
nor jugular black streak. 
The Black-naped Blue Fly-catcher within our limits is confined 
to the Ghats region. It has been recorded from Belgaum, Nagar, 
and Ratnagiri. It oceurs sparingly all along the Sahyadri Range 
as far north as Khandalla. 
Genus, Leucocerca, Swains, 
Bill rather long, depressed, wide throughout, except at tip, 
which is slightly hooked and notched ; nostrils apert, but over- 
hung by some long nareal bristles ; rictal bristles very long, 
slender ; wings with the first four quills unequally graduated ; 
fourth and fifth quills sub-equal and longest; tail lengthened, 
wide, rounded or graduated; tarsus moderate, strong; feet 
moderate ; lateral toes unequal. 
Leucocerca albicollis, Vvecll. 
291.—Leucocerca fuscoventris, Frankl.—Jerdon’s Birds of India: 
Vol. I, p. 451; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 395. 
THE WHITE THROATED FANTAIL. 
Length, 7°5; expanse, 9°25; wing, 3°13; tail, 4:5; tarsus, 0°75 ; 
bill at front, 0- 3, 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Sooty brown-black throughout, tinged with ashy in the 
abdomen and back, and dusky-brownish on the wings and outer 
tail-feathers, the three outermost of which are tipped with 
dirty-white ; a very short supercilium ; chin and throat white. 
The occurrence of the White-throated Fantail within our limits 
is doubtful. 
Franklin is said to have procured it in Central India. Adams, 
who evidently mistook it for Z. awreola, says it is common 
at Poona. Colonel Sykes includes it in the Birds of the 
Decvan. 
Leucocerca aureola, Vieill. 
292.—Leucocerca albofrontata, Frankl—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 452; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. UI, 
