PHILENTOMA. O];> 



far as Nepaul. It affects the well-wooded parts of the country, and is mmv 

 abundant in heavy forest and bamboo jungle than elsewhere. Like T. paradisi 

 it is generally seen in pairs. At the period of local migration considerable 

 numbers associate together for a short time. Gates says its nest has not yet 

 been found. 



Gen. Philentoma. Eyton. 

 General characters of Terpsiphone. 



Wing longer than the tail ; second primary shorter than the secondaries, 

 the third equal to the latter ; wing rounded ; the distance between the 

 primaries and the secondaries not so great as the length of the culmen. 



240. Philentoma velatum (Tern.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. 

 p. 365 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 204; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 449; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 373; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 191 ; Hume and Dav. 1878, 

 p. 224; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 92; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 263. The 

 MAROON-BREASTED FLY-CATCHER. 



Male. General colour bright greyish or indigo blue ; forehead, lores, chin, 

 cheeks and a narrow supercilium black ; ring round the eye, ear coverts and 

 upper half of the throat also black ; lower half of throat .and breast rich 

 maroon ; quills black ; the outer webs broadly margined with indigo blue ; 

 tertiaries like the back and with black shafts ; central tail feather indigo blue, 

 the rest black on the inner web and blue on the outer ; bill black ; feet dark 

 greenish black ; iris crimson. 



Length. 7*5 inches ; wing 3-85 ; tail 3-3 ; tarsus 075 ; culmen 075. 



The female is dull indigo blue throughout, except on the wings and tail, 

 which are as in the male. The base of the forehead, lores, cheeks, throat 

 and breast black. 



Length. 7*9 inches; wing 3-8 ; tail 3-5 ; tarsus 07; culmen 07. 



The following is a description by Mr. Hume of a young male : " Entire 

 head and neck all round, chin, throat, breast and, in fact, all the lower parts, a 

 dull chestnut, with only here and there on the lower parts patches of new dull 

 cyaneous feathers appearing ; median and the secondary and tertiary greater 

 coverts tipped with chestnut." 



Hab. Southern half of the Tenasserim Provinces, Malayan Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, and Borneo. (Sharpe.) Recorded by Mr. Sharpe as from Malacca, 

 Sumatra, Sarawak, and Bintulu (N. W. Borneo). 



Oates says the Maroon-breasted Fly-Catcher occurs in Tenasserim, and tint 



Mr. Davison met with it at numerous places from Meetan. at the foot ot the 



Mooleyit, to Malewoon at the extreme south. It is a constant resident. 



According to Davison it keeps entirely to the evergreen forests, never straying 



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