CTOBK18" 13 



w 4 . Second primary between the 

 sixth and seventh or equal to 

 seventh. 



c 5 . Wing 2-8 j tail 2-2 C. hodgsoni 9 , p. 14. 



d 5 . Wing 2-3 or 2-4 ; tail 17 or 1-8. 

 a 6 . Chin, throat, and breast pale 



buff or sordid white. 

 a 7 . Upper tail-coverts and 

 outer webs of tail-fea- 

 thers suffused with blue. C. superciliaris $ , p. 17. 

 V. Upper tail-coverts and 

 outer webs of tail-fea- 

 thers fulvous C. astigma $ , p. 19. 



c 7 . Upper tail-coverts and 

 outer webs of tail-fea- 

 thers bright ferruginous. C. melanoleucus $ , p. 18. 

 b". Chin, throat, and breast 



orange-chestnut C. sapphira , p. 20. 



564. Cyornis cyaneus. The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher. 



Muscitrea cyanea, Hume, S. F. v, p. 101 (1877) ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. 



vi, p. 207 ; Hume, Cat. no. 2GG bis. 

 Trichastoina leucoproctura, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 306: Hume, 



S. F. vii, p. 318 



Niltava leucoprocta (Tweedd.), Oates, B. B. \, p. 298. 

 Pachycephala cyanea (Hume), Gadow, B. M. Gat. viii, p. 224. 



Fig. 5. Bill of C. cyaneus. 



Coloration. Male. Lores and front line of the forehead black ; 

 forehead, crown, nape, and some of the lesser coverts cobalt-blue ; 

 the remaining wing-coverts and the whole upper plumage deep 

 blue ; quills dark brown, edged with blue ; the four middle tail- 

 feathers dull blue, the next pair white on both webs, with a broad 

 black tip, the next two pairs nearly entirely white on the inner 

 web, the outermost pair narrowly white on the inner web ; sides 

 of the head and neck, chin, throat, and breast dull blue ; abdomen 

 and sides of the body bluish grey; vent and under tail-coverts 

 pure white; under wing-coverts ashy. The disposition of white 

 in the tail varies somewhat. 



Female. Lores and front line of the forehead reddish brown ; 

 upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with rul'ous; wing-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, broadly edged with bright rufous ; tail brown, 

 tinged with rufous and with the same distribution of white on it 

 as in the male ; ear- coverts olive-brown, with pale shafts ; chin, 

 throat, bivast, and sides of the body rufous-olive ; a large patch of 



