BRACHYPTERYX. 5} 



The whole plumage indigo blue ; the quills dusky blackish, margined 

 externally with indigo blue ; rump with a half concealed spot of greyish white ; 

 lores black, bordered above by white, which is produced back over the eye ; 

 throat blue black ; centre of breast ashy grey, whiter on the abdomen ; under 

 tail coverts ashy blue with whitish margins ; under wing coverts ashy brown 

 tinged with blue. 



The female has the upper plumage, sides of the head and neck olivaceous 

 brown ; wings and tail rufous brown ; also the lores extending over the eye, 

 feathers round the eye, cheek and throat ; remainder of under surface light 

 ashy ; sides of body fulvous brown ; the under tail coverts brighter fulvous. 

 Bill black ; legs pale brownish. 



Length. 5 to 5*25 inches ; wing 2*4 to 27 ; tail 175 to 195 ; tarsus 1-15 

 to 1-2 ; bill from gape I. 



Hab. The Eastern Himalayas, extending into the Burmese and Tenasserim 

 hills. Gates says it has been observed in the Munipoor and Khasia hills, and, 

 according to Jerdon, has been found in Sikkim and Nepaul. Darjeeling 

 and Nepaul are quoted localities whence specimens have been procured. 

 Hodgson describes the nest as made of moss, globular in shape and rather 

 bulky ; it is placed about one foot from the ground amongst grass and creep- 

 ing plants at the base of trunks of tree-s. Eggs white. 



489. Brachypteryx hyperythra, Jerd. and Biyth, P. z. S. 



1 86 1, p. 201 (descr. $ ) ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 495, No. 337 ; Hume, Sir. F. 

 1877, p. 499 (descr. ) ; id., Sir. F. 1879, p. 93 ; Sharps, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 28. The RUSTY-BELLIED SHORT-WING. 



Upper surface of the body, including the face, sides of the head and of the 

 neck, also of the body, blackish cyaneous ; a supercilium above the lores white ; 

 the base of the lower mandible, feathers above and below the eye, and a portion 

 of the ear coverts black ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen and tinder tail coverts 

 orange ferruginous, a little paler on the chin, throat and middle of the abdo- 

 men. Bill carneous ; legs fleshy ; irides brown. 



The female is described by Jerdon as dusky olive brown above ; lores 

 tinged with ferruginous, middle of the belly white. Length nearly 5 inches ; 

 wing 2-5 ; tail 175 ; bill at front 0*43. (Jerdon.) 



Length. $ inches; wing 2'5 ; tarsus 1-3; culmen 0-43. (Hume.) 

 Hab. Eastern Himalayas. Jerdon procured a single specimen at Darjeeling. 



490. Brachypteryx nipalensis,^^^,/*. z. S. 1854^.74; Jerd. 



and Blyth, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 201 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 494, No. 336; Blanf., 

 J. A. S. B. xli. p. 160 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 236; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 93 ; Oates* B. Br. Burmah, i. p. 19 ; Skarpe. Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 29. The NEPAUL SHORT-WING. 



