200 MUSCICAPID^F, 



Above deep ultramarine, brighter and more cobalt on the forepart of the 

 crown and over the eye ; a broad frontal line, lores, feathers round the eye, 

 sides of face and ear coverts black, the latter with a bluish tinge ; scapulars 

 and wing coverts deep ultramarine blue like the back > the primary coverts 

 and primaries narrowly edged with blue, their inner webs brown ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body rich orange yellow, slightly paler on the abdomen ; the 

 thighs and under tail coverts whitish ; tail blackish, washed with blue exter- 

 nally ; axillaries, sides of breast and under wing coverts pure white. (Sharpe.) 

 Bill black; legs pale reddish ; iris dark brown. (Jerd,) 



Length. 3-6 ; wing 1*85; tail 1*4 ; tarsus O'6 ,- culmen 0-4. 



The female is yellowish olive brown above, rather rufous on the rump and 

 upper tail coverts ; wings like the back ; quills dark brown, edged externally with 

 the same yellowish olive brown of the back ; tail brown, washed externally with 

 rufous brown ; lores and sides of the face ochraceous buff, as also a ring of 

 feathers round the eye ; ear coverts washed with olive ; cheeks and under surface 

 of the body pale saffron yellow, deeper on the flanks ; middle of abdomen, 

 sides of the body, under wing and under tail coverts white. 



Lengtli.y'i inches ; wing l 8 ; tail 1-35 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 04. 



ffa&.The Eastern Himalayas, from Darjeeling to Sikkim and Nepaul, 

 Entirely confined to the Himalayas. 



226. Tarsiger indicus, Vieili. N. Diet. d'Eist. Nat. xi. p. 267. 



Nemura flavo-olivacea, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, P 2 7* Tarsiger superciliaris-, 

 Hodgs. Icon. ined. Passer es, A pp. pL 57; Moore, P. Z* S. 1854, p 76; 

 Swinh, P.Z. S. 1871, p. 359. lanthina flavo-olivacea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. 

 p. 133. Erythaca flavo-olivacea, Gray, Cat. Mam, &V., Nepaul; JJly. Cat. 

 B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 171. lanthina superciliaris, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 148. 

 The RUFOUS-BELLIED BLUE WOOD-CHAT. 



Adult Male. Above dark slaty blue grey, some of the feathers on the sides 

 of the rump tipped with yellowish buff; sides of the crown white, forming a 

 very broad white eyebrow, extending from the base of the bill to the sides of the 

 nape ; lores, and sides of the face black, the latter slightly washed with slaty 

 grey; wing coverts yellowish brown, the innermost of all the series slaty blue: 

 greater coverts and quills blackish brown, externally edged with yellowish 

 brown, the inner secondaries with slaty blue ; tail dark slaty blue, blackish on 

 the inner webs ; under surface of body orange rufous, whiter on the middle of 

 the abdomen \ bill brownish ; feet reddish grey ; iris brown. 



Length. 5 inches ; wing 3-1 ; tail 2'S ; tarsus ri ; culmen 0-5. 



The female differs from the male in being ochraceous brown above ; the 

 wings margined with rusty olive ; eyebrow white, but not so distinct as in the 

 male \ sides of face olive brown, with fulvous shaft lines ; under surface of body 

 deep ochraceous brown j chin whitish. 



