114 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



Key to Ceylon Museicapidoe. 

 I. — Tail shorter than wing. 



A. — -Fore-neck and breast, either rich chestnut, or ferru- 

 ginous in adults. 



(a) Upper plumage brown ; upper tail coverts 

 black ; some white on taU. 



SipJiia hyperythra (Indian Red-breasted Flycatcher) 



(b) Upper plumage generally blue ; no black on tail 

 coverts or white on tail. Genus Cyornis. 



(1) Males blue above ; chin and throat dusk}'^- 

 blue ; females l)rown above ; chin and throat 

 dull rufous, like the breast. 



O. ruheculoides ruheculoides (Blue-throated Fly- 

 catcher). 



(2) Both males and females blue above : in males 

 the chin feathers adjoining the bill black, 

 remainder of chin and throat same colour as 

 fore-neck ; in females the dark chin-stripe is 

 lacking. 



C. ruheculoides tickelli (Tickell's Blue Flycatcher). 



B. — Sexes alike ; greater part of both upper and lower 

 plumage ashy-gray tinged with blue. 



Stoparola melanops sordida (Dusky-blue Fly- 

 catcher). 



C. — Sexes alike ; upper plumage plain brown, or rufous ; 

 lower parts white or inconspicuously coloured. 

 Genus Alseo7iax. 



(1) Upper plumage and tail ashy-brown, 

 A. latirostris (Brown Flycatcher). 



(2) Upper plumage more ruddy brown ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts bright rufous brown. 

 A. muttui (La yard's Flycatcher). 



D. — Plumage gray in front, yellow behind. 



Culicicapa ceylonensis (Gray-headed Flycatcher). 



