182 CBATEROPODIDJE. 



plumage blue ; wings and tail brown, washed with blue on 

 the outer webs ; the whole lower plumage pure white, the flanks 

 washed with brown. 



Female. The whole upper plumage aud the lesser upper wing- 

 coverts olive-brown, tinged with russet on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 greater coverts and quills brown, suffused with rufous on the outer 

 webs, the former also distinctly tipped with rufous ; tail brown, 

 suffused with russet ; forehead, lores, and sides of the head rufous, 

 mottled with brown ; middle of chin and throat, the abdomen, and 

 under tail- coverts pure white ; sides of the chin and the throat and 

 the whole breast pale fulvous, each feather margined with brown, 

 causing a mottled appearance ; sides of the body plain fulvous. 



The young are coloured like the female. Young males assume 

 a little blue on the back and upper tail-coverts at an early age. 



Legs, feet, and claws fleshy white ; upper mandible in the male 

 dark, in the female pale horny brown ; lower mandible fleshy white 

 or pale brown ; gape fleshy white ; (one male had the upper mandible 

 horny black ;) irides deep brown (Davison}. 



Length 5-6 ; tail 1-8 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus I'l ; bill from gape '7. 

 Distribution. Has been procured in Lower Pegu by myself and 

 in various localities in Tenasserim by Davison and Bingham. Hume 

 obtained this bird in Manipur at the end of April. In the Pin will 

 Collection in the British Museum there is a specimen which is said 

 to have been procured in the N.W. Himalayas near Simla. I 

 know of no other instance of the occurrence of the present species 

 in India proper; but Seebohm asserts that it winters in North India, 

 a somewhat sweeping statement which requires confirmation. 



1 am by no means certain that this bird is more than a partial 

 migrant in Burma. I procured the only specimen I ever met with 

 in Burma on the 21st May, and the fact that specimens were col- 

 lected by Davison and Biugham only in the winter months goes for 

 little when it is remembered that the collection of birds is suspended 

 in Burma in great measure in the wet season or summer months, 

 owing to the heavy rainfall and the impenetrability of the jungle 

 at that period of the year. 



This species has a wide range, being found in Eastern Asia from 

 Siberia to Borneo. 



Habits, <$fc. This Blue Chat keeps entirely to the ground in dense 

 vegetation, and occurs solitarily or in pairs. 



191. Larvivora brunnea. The Indian Blue Chat. 



Larvivora cyana, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi, p. 102 (1837) ; Horsf. fy M. 



Cat. i, p. 310 j Jcrd. B. I. ii, p. 145 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, 



pt. ii, p. 44 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 324 j Legge, S. F. iii, p. 369. 

 Larvivora brunnea, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi, p. 102 (1837) ; Leage. 



Birds Ceyl. p. 446 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 127. 

 Phcenicura superciliaris, Jerd. Madr. Journ. L. S, xiii, p. 170 (1844). 

 Calliope cyana (Hodgs.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 169. 

 Larvivora superciliaris (Jerd.}, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 16 ; Blanf. J. A. 



S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 161 : Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 240 j Fairbank, S. F. 



