RUTICILLIN %. 209 
Genvs, Calliope, Gould. 
Bill of moderate length and strength; wings moderate, first 
quill very short, second equal to the seventh; tail very slightly 
rounded; the outer feathers being a little shorter than the 
penultimate pair; tarsus moderately long, stout; the feet large ; 
hind-toe long ; claws long, not much curved. 
Calliope camtschatkensis, Gm. 
512.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 150. 
THE CoMMON RUBY-THROAT. 
Length, 6; wing, 3; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 1:12; bill at front, 0°5. 
Bill horny-brown ; irides dark-brown ; legs livid or purplish. 
Above olive-brown, beneath dull whitish; a band above and 
below the eyes whitish; intermediate space black; feathers of 
the throat somewhat scaly and stiff, light scarlet or ruby-red, 
with silvery edges, more or less surrounded with black ; the breast 
ashy, flanks bright olive-brown, and belly whitish ; axillaries 
slightly rufescent. 
The female has in general no trace of the ruby-throat, 
which is whitish, and the lores brown; but some old females 
have a tinge of the ruby color. 
Jerdon states that “once on boardship, a little south of Bom- 
bay, one took refuge in the month of November.” This is 
the only record of the occurrence of the Common Ruby-throat 
within our limits. 
Genus, Cyanecula, Brehm. 
Bill rather short, slightly conic, straight; wings moderate ; 
third and fourth quills equal and longest; fifth a little shorter ; 
second equal to sixth; tail rather short, nearly even; tarsus 
moderately long ; claws very slightly curved. 
Cyanecula suecica, Lin. 
514.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 152; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 478; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 405; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 147; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 
THE INDIAN BLUE-THROAT. 
Length, 6:2; expanse, 9°25; wing, 3; tail, 2:25; tarsus, 1; 
bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill dusky-horn; gape yellow; irides dark-brown; legs 
brownish. 
Above pale olive-brown, the feathers of the crown slightly 
centred darker, and with a whitish supercilium ; lower parts 
whitish; the under tail-coverts more or less tinged with rufes- 
cent; throat and breast. bright shiny azure-blue, the former 
generally mingled with whitish along the middle, and having a 
large ferruginous spot in front of the neck; below, and border- 
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