130 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



(2) Length about 6' 3; upper plumage black in 

 males, dusky-brown in females ; tail black, 

 lower tail coverts chestnut. 

 Thamnohia fuUcata (Black Robin). 



II. — Tail black and white. 



(1) Length about 8; tail about 3*5; upper tail 

 coverts black. 



Copsychus saularis ceylonensis (Magpie Robin). 



(2) Length about 11; taO about 6; rump and 

 upper tail coverts white. 



Cittocincla macrura macrura (Shama Robin). 



Cyanecula suecica suecica. 



The Indian Bluethroat. 



Cyanecula suecica (Oates, Vol. II., p. 99 ; Legge, p. 443). 



Description. — Male : Upper plumage, including wings, 

 brown, the feathers of the head and neck with darker centres ; 

 chin and throat bright blue with a rufous patch in the centre 

 of the throat, the blue area is bordered below by a band of 

 black, and this band by another broader rufous band ; lores 

 black ; a buff stripe from the nostrils over the eye to the 

 ear coverts ; cheeks and ear coverts buff mixed with black ; 

 remainder of lower parts dull white ; central tail feathers 

 brown, the others with the basal half chestnut and the end 

 half blackish-brown. 



Females : Whole of lower parts huffish white ; a broad 

 blackish gorget with brown spots across the breast. Im- 

 mature males resemble females, only gradually assuming 

 the blue and chestnut of full maturity, and birds are seldom 

 met with in the full male plumage. In nestlings the upper 

 parts are blackish streaked with buff, the feathers of the 

 lower parts buff edged with black. 



Bill black, the base flesh colour ; iris brown ; legs dusky 

 flesh colour. 



Length 5*9; wing 2*9; tail 2*3; tarsus 1 • 1 ; bill from gape 

 •75. 



