CYORNIS. 15 



I have examined the types of E. sordida obligingly sent me by 

 Godwin-Austen and I find them to be the females of the present 

 species. 



Distribution. Specimens of this species have been obtained in 

 Sikhitn (March and April) ; Shillong (no date) ; Japvo peak, Naga 

 hills, at 6000 feet (January) ; Manipur (February and April); Karen 

 hills near Toungngoo at 4000 feet (January) ; pine-forests, JSalvveen 

 (February) ; Muleyit mountain (January and February). This 

 Flycatcher extends into China. 



566. Cyornis hyperythrus. The Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher. 



Dimorpha superciliaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 190 (1842, nee Jerd.}. 

 Muscicapa hyperythra, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 885 (1842). 

 Muscicapula rubecula, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 940 (1843). 

 Siphia superciliaris (Bl.\ Blyth, Cat. p. 172 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 480 ; 



Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 159 j Hume, Cat. no. 321 ; id. S. F. 



xi, p. 115. 

 Digenea superciliaris (BL), Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 293 ; Hume, N. $ E. 



p. 216. 



Muscicapula hyperythra (Bl.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 206. 

 Cyornis hyperythrus (Bl.), Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 2. 

 The Rufous-breasted Flycatcher, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, lores, chin, and cheeks black ; a 

 frontal band extending to the posterior part of the eye white ; the 

 whole upper plumage, sides of the head, and wing-coverts slaty 

 blue ; quills brown, the primaries and secondaries edged with rufous ; 

 tail brown suffused with slaty blue, and the bases of all the feathers 

 except the middle two pairs white; throat and breast orange- 

 chestnut, paling below the breast and becoming white on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts ; sides of the body tinged with 

 brown ; axillaries white. 



Female. Forehead, lores, and a conspicuous ring round the eye 

 fulvous ; sides of the head fulvous-brown with paler shafts ; upper 

 plumage olive-brown, the wings edged with ferruginous and the 

 tail suffused with rufescerit olive-brown ; lower plumage ochraceous, 

 pale on the throat and abdomen, bright on the breast, the flanks 

 infuscated. 



The young are streaked with fulvous above and on the sides of 

 the head, and the lower parts are fulvous with black margins on 

 the feathers of the breast. 



Legs and feet very pale silvery to fleshy pink, the terminal joints 

 of the toes and the claws slightly brownish ; bill black ; iris deep 

 brown (Hume). 



Length about 4'5 ; tail 1-6 ; wing 2-3 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from gape 

 5. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Garhwal to Sikhim ; the Khasi 

 and Naga hills; Manipur. This species breeds in the Himalaya* 

 and also in the Khasi hills, whence I have seen specimens obtained 

 in .July and August. 



, $c. According to Hodgson this species makes a nest of 



