450 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus CYANOPTILA Blyth, 1847. 
The genus Cyanoptila is not wily distinguished from Zanthopygia. 
In the former genus the colors of the male are blue, black, and white; 
the wing formula is the same as that of Zanthopygia; tail equal to nearly 
three-fourths of wing; tarsus one and one-half times the length of bill 
from nostril. 
412. CYANOPTILA BELLA (Hay). 
JAPANESE BLUE FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa bella Hay, Madr. Journ. (1845), pt. 2, 158. 
Xanthopygia cyanomelena SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 251. 
Cyanoptila bella STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. (1892), 15, 328; 
SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 238; OarEes and RED, Cat. Birds’ Eggs 
(1903), 3, 269; McGrecor and WorcrsTER, Hand-List (1906), 73. 
Cyanoptila cyanomelena EVERETT, Ibis (1895), 24 
Balabac (Everett); Palawan?* Japan, China, Indo-Chinese countries, north- 
western Borneo. 
“Adult male.—General color above blue, the greater coverts uniform 
with the back, the lesser and median coverts brighter and inore cobalt- 
blue, forming a shoulder patch; head, still brighter and more lazuline 
blue, richest on the forehead; a narrow frontal line, lores, eyelid, sides 
of face, and entire throat and chest black; rest of under surface of body 
pure white, the flanks ashy; thighs black; under wing-coverts dusky 
brown, broadly edged with blue, the edge of the wing bright blue; 
primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, externally greenish blue; middle 
tail-feathers dark blue, the remainder blue on the outer web, black on 
the inner, with conspicuous white bases to the feathers. ‘Bill black; legs 
brown; iris black.? (David.) Length, 140; culmen, 14; wing, 86; tail, 
61; tarsus, 15. 
“Observation—A male bird from Japan, in the Leiden Museum, 
marked Cyanoptila cyanothorax, is a little different from the full- 
plumaged male, being of a greener cobalt above, and has the throat 
washed with greenish blue. The blue color on the head is different 
being brighter cobalt. Specimens from Borneo do not differ from the 
Japanese bird described in any important particulars; one has a gloss 
of blue on the throat and chest, another is more greenish blue above, 
while a Tingchow male has the back greenish blue, with distinct black 
shaft-streaks. 
“Adult female.—Different from the male. Ashy brown above, washed 
with pale verditer-blue on the scapulars, lower back, and upper tail- 
coverts; least wing-coverts bright blue as in adult male, the rest and 
the quills externally verditer-blue, the outermost of the greater series 
dull brown, edged with ashy brown and narrowly tipped with whitish; 
* Sharpe, Hand-List, gives the locality “Palawan (winter)” for this flycatcher; 
I have not found that it is recorded from Palawan. 
