166 MUSCICAPIN &. 
THE WHITE-BELLIED BLUE FLY-CATCHER. 
Length, 65; expanse, 10; wing, 3; tail, 2°5; bill at front, 
from edge of feathers, 0°5 ; tarsus, 0°73. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; feet and claws vary from pale whity- 
brown to pale leaden-grey. 
Entirely of a deep indigo-blue, except on the belly and under 
inl oer which are white ; wings and tail dusky on their inner 
webs. 
The above is Dr. Jerdon’s description which is very brief and 
not altogether satisfactory. I therefore subjoin Mr. Hume’s 
description :— 
The lores and an excessively narrow line across the forehead at 
the base of the bill black ; above this the forehead and two long 
superciliary stripes are of a perceptibly paler and brighter blue 
than the rest of the plumage ; the belly, abdomen, vent, and 
lower tail-coverts, and greater portion of wing-lining, pure white ; 
sides and flanks greyish ; chin blackish ; inner webs of the quills, 
greater-coverts, and tail-feathers, hair-brown ; the rest of the 
plumage dull blue, indigo in some specimens. 
The White-bellied Blue Fly-catcher is probably a rare cold 
weather visitant to the Ghat range only. It has been obtained 
on the Goa frontier and on the Ghats west of Belgaum. 
Genus, Muscicapulex, Blyth. 
Bill feeble, depressed, moderately wide at the base, gradually 
narrowing and triangular, very slightly hooked and notched at the 
tip ; nareal and rictal bristles rather short ; wing moderate ; 
third and fourth quills sub-equal, fifth very little shorter ; tail 
moderate ; tarsus slender, slightly lengthened ; toes unequal, middle- 
toe somewhat lengthened. 
Muscicapula superciliaris, Jerd. 
310.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 470; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 397. 
THE WHITE-BROWED BLUE FLY-CATCHER. 
Length, 4°25; wing, 2 ; tail, 1°8 ; tarsus, 0°5. 
Bill black ; irides deep-brown ; legs brown. 
Above, and the sides of the head, full prussian blue, some of 
the feathers of the rump with the shaft, and a bar in the middle 
of the feather, white; wing and tail black, edged with blue; 
the base of the tail-feathers except the centrals, white; a broad 
superciliary stripe extending to some distance behind the eyes, 
and the plumage beneath snowy-white ; a band of blue extend- 
ing from the sides of the neck more or less across the sides of the 
breast. 
The White-browed Blue Fly-catcher is an extremely rare cold 
weather visitant to the Deccan, it having been obtained at 
Nagar by Mr. Fairbank, but this is the only record of its occur- 
rence within our limits. 
