chiefly to the Birds of India. 165 



of probably a female in quasi-masculine attire, from Japan, 

 having the throat, breast, and ear-coverts, which are black in 

 the mature male of C. cyanomelanura, of a dull whitish colour, 

 while the back is strongly tinged with verditer. It is figured as 

 the ordinary female of the species in the ' Fauna Japonica ' 

 {Aves, pi. xvii.). 



Cyornis cyanopolia (Boie), from Sumatra,.Java, and Borneo, 

 differs in no respect that I can perceive, whether from recollec- 

 tion or comparison with Dr. Jerdon^s description, from C. unicolor, 

 nobis, of the Sikhim Himalaya. The female [Muscicapa infus- 

 cata, Miiller) is rufous-brown above, darker upon the crown, and 

 brighter on the tail ; lower parts pure white, except the sides of 

 the breast, which are coloured like the back. Wing 3*125 in. 



Cyornis beccariana, Salvadori. One of two Bornean species 

 of this genus, which were undescribed when I first took notes 

 of them in 1868, I now identify as above. It differs from 

 C. elegans [rubeculoides) in having the whole throat to the ear- 

 coverts rufous-white ; forehead, over the eye, shoulder of wing, 

 and upper tail-coverts of a more lazuliue blue than in C. elegans, 

 and the breast is less deeply tinged with rufous ; legs pale ; 

 wing 2*75 in. 



Cyornis simplex, sp. n. 



This species is distinguished by its conspicuous white lores ; 

 throat pale ferruginous, which colour extends nearly (but not 

 quite) to the ear-coverts ; upper parts duller blue than in the 

 others, with no bright blue on the forehead and over the eye, 

 or on the upper tail-coverts, and little more than an indication 

 of brighter colouring on the shoulder of the wing ; breast rather 

 bright ferruginous; flanks tinged with the same; legs brown; 

 wing 2'75 in. The presumed female is wholly ferruginous- 

 brown, very bright ferruginous on tail ; the lower parts paler, 

 whitish on throat and middle of belly ; orbital feathers whitish. 

 Wing 2'625 in. C. rufifrons, Wallace, is a fourth species of this 

 genus inhabiting Borneo. 



Of C. ruficauda it is remarked by Dr. Stoliczka (J. A. S. B. 

 1868, p. 29) that the " male and female do not differ in colour- 

 ing, except that the breast is somewhat more albescent in the 



