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cyaneous ; quills black, edged with brown; tail black, the bases of all but the 

 two central feathers white at the base ; sides of the neck and a patch on 

 either side of the breast dull cyaneous ; chin, throat, breast and abdomen 

 rich orange ; lower abdomen, vent, flanks and under tail coverts pale ferrugi- 

 nous. Bill black ; legs and feet dark reddish horny ; irides very dark brown 

 (Day.) 



Length. 5-5 inches; tail 2'2 to 2-$ ; wing 2-95; tarsus -65; bill from 

 gape '55- 



Hab. Darjeeling (Jerdon), British Burmah and Nepaul. According to 

 Gates it has been procured in Karenne and in the Karin Hills, east of Tounghoo, 

 at 4,000 feet elevation. Davison says it is confined to the higher hills of the 

 northern and central portions of Tennaserim, and that he got it in the pine 

 forests north of Pahpoon and near the summit of Mooleyit. It is found in the 

 Himalayas, and extends its range to Western China. 



The female of this species is not yet satisfactorily identified. There is a 

 closely allied species P. luteola, which Gates says will probably be found in 

 Burmah. 



Gen. Muscicapula. Blyth. 



Bill feeble, narrow at tip, moderately wide at base, depressed, very slightly 

 hooked and notched at the tip ; rictal and nareal bristles moderately developed ; 

 3rd quill nearly as long as 4th ; ist and 2nd primaries moderately developed ; 

 tarsus slightly lengthened. 



219. Muscicapula superciliaris, (Jerd.) Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xii. pp-939, 962; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 470, No. 310; Slot. J. A. S. B. 

 xxxvii. pt. ii. p. 30; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 213 ; Ball, Str. F. v. p. 415 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 92 ; Sharpe> Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 204 ; Oates, B. 

 Br. Burm., i. p. 292. Muscicapa superciliaris, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. 

 p. 16. Erythrosterna acornaus (Hodgs), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 483, No. 325 ; 

 Bearan, Ibis, 1870, p. 320; Bl. and Wald., B. Burm. p. 103; Hume and 

 Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 233 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 93. -The WHITE-BROWED 

 BLUE FLY-CATCHER. 



Top of head, cheeks, ear coverts and sides of the neck dull blue ; lores 

 black ; a broad distinct supercilium reaching behind to the nape white ; back 

 of the head, nape, entire upper plumage, including the lesser and median 

 wing coverts, dull blue ; greater wing coverts and quills dark brown, edged 

 with pale bluish ; tail black, edged with blue, the basal half of all, except 

 the central ones, white ; entire lower surface of body white, except a broad, 

 dull- blue collar across the breast. 



The female has the upper plumage brown, the feathers of the head centred 

 darker, the forehead, rump and upper tail coverts tinged with rufous ; wing 

 coverts, quills and tail brown, edged paler ; the lores mixed rufous and white ; 



