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Young birds are brown streaked with fulvous, and with 

 broad fulvous tips on the wing coverts ; throat and breast 

 bright fulvous mottled with brown ; abdomen white. 



Bill black, the gape jflesh-coloured ; iris brown ; legs and 

 feet grayish -blue. 



Length 5*7; wing 2-7; tail 2-2; tarsus "7; bill from 

 gape '7. 



Distribution. — This bird is now considered to be a migrant 

 form sub-specifically allied to Cyornis ruheculoides tickelli, 

 which is a resident race. It breeds in the Himalayas, and 

 winters over a considerable portion of the plains of India and 

 Burma. In Ceylon it has been obtained by Legge and Layard 

 during the north-east monsoon, but only in the JafEna penin- 

 sula and the northern forest tract. 



Habits. — A restless little bird which keeps to the under- 

 growth and lower branches in high jungle. The call is more 

 varied and longer sustained than that of the following 

 sub-species. 



Cyornis rubeculoides tickelli. 

 Tickell's Blue Flycatcher. 



Cyornis tickelli (Gates, Vol. II., p. 25) ; Siphia tickellise (Legge, 

 p. 421). 



Description. — Male : Forehead and a streak over the eye 

 shining blue ; upper plumage dull blue ; wings dull brown, 

 the outer webs of most quills washed with blue ; tail feathers 

 blue, the shafts and the greater part of the webs brown ; 

 lores, face, and chin feathers adjoining the bill almost black ; 

 remainder of chin, throat, and neck bright ferruginous ; 

 breast and flanks paler ; abdomen and under tail coverts 

 white. 



Female : Resembles the male, but the upper plumage is 

 lighter and has a faded appearance ; lores whitish ; cheeks 

 bluish ; no dark chin stripe ; chin, throat, and breast paler 

 ferruginous than in the male. 



Young birds are streaked with fulvous, and resemble the 

 young of the last sub-species. 



