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moss under the roots, or near the base, of a tree. The eggs are said 

 to be pale grey "or brownish white marked with brownish red, and 

 to measure about -68 by -44. 



567. Cyornis leucomelanurus. The Slaty-blue Flycatcher. 



Digenea leucomelanura, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26 ; Horsf. $ M. 



Cat. i, p. 294 ; Hume, N. # E. p. 216 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, 



p. 459, pi. xiii. 

 Digenoa tricolor, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26; Horsf. % M. Cat. i, 



p. 294. 

 Siphia tricolor (Ilodgs.), Blyth, Cat. p. 172; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 478; 



Brooks, S. F. v, p. tfli_Hume, Cat. no. 318. 



. 



8. B. xh'ii, pt. ii/p. 15 ; Hume, Cat. no. 320. 

 Siphia minuta, Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 109 ; id. S. F. vii, p. 376 ; id. 



Cat. no. 318 bis. 

 Digenea cerviniventris, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 460 (1879) ; Salv. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 388. 

 Cyornis leucomelanurus (Hodgs.), Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. 



ii, p. 3. 

 The Brown-winged Flycatcher, The Slaty Flycatcher, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Upper plumage and the margins of the wing- 

 coverts and tertiaries dull blue ; forehead and eyebrow greyish blue ; 

 lores and sides of head black ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, 

 the basal half of all the tail-feathers, except the middle pair, white ; 

 quills brown, edged with pale rufous ; chin and throat white, and 

 the remainder of the lower plumage pale fulvous-grey ; sometimes 

 the whole lower plumage including the chin and throat is a pale 

 buff. 



Female. "Whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with rufous 

 on the rump ; upper tail-coverts and tail ferruginous ; a fulvous 

 ring round the eye ; lores and sides of the head mixed fulvous and 

 brown ; wings brown, margined with pale rufous ; chin, throat, 

 and middle of the abdomen whitish; remaining lower plumage 

 ochraceous. 



The young nestling has the upper plumage brown streaked with 

 fulvous and the lower plumage fulvous. 



Bill black; legs dark brown; iris brown (Coclcburn). 



Length about 4'5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2-4 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from gape *5. 



In Sikhim males the chin and throat are generally white and the 

 lower plumage pale. Birds from Shillong and Manipur become 

 much darker ; and to such a dark bird from the latter locality Sharpe 

 gave the name Digenea cerviniventris. I do not think the two 

 forms are more than races. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree and Kashmir to Sib- 

 sagur and Sadiya in Assam ; the Khasi hills ; Manipur ; Karennee. 

 This species is found up to 7000 or 8000 feet. 



Habits, fyc. The nest of this Flycatcher is a massive little cup 



