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Str. F. vii, p. 516 ; ill Cut. n... :\(V.\ : ,SV///Wtn, ^4nn. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. (2) vii, p. 386 ; 7/ww, AS'. F. xi, p. 107 j Ofe* w Humes N. 

 $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 5. 

 Siphia unicolor (Bl.), Sharpe, Cat,. B. .If. iv, p. -111. 



Coloration. Male, Forehead, a broad eyebrow, and the lesser 

 wing-coverts ultramarine-blue ; lores black, tipped with blue ; 

 sides of the head and neck and the whole upper plumage, with the 

 exposed parts of the closed wing, light blue ; upper tail-coverts 

 and the margins of the tail-feathers deep blue ; lower plumage 

 pale dull blue, becoming albescent on the abdomen ; the under 

 tail-coverts broadly fringed with white ; axillaries pale fulvous. 



Female. Lores and a ring round the eye pale rufescent ; the 

 whole upper plumage olive-brown tinged with rufous; the upper 

 tail-coverts and the margins of the wings, together with the whole 

 tail, ferruginous ; the whole lower plumage earthy brown, tinged 

 with ochraceous on the sides of the body ; abdomen albescent ; 

 axillaries pale fulvous. 



The young nestling is brown, densely spotted and mottled with 

 bright fulvous. 



In the male the legs and feet are dull pale purple ; bill black ; 

 iris brown. In the female the legs and feet are greyish brown ; 

 upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale bluish horny ; iris 

 brown (Hume). 



Length about 6%5 ; tail 2'8 ; wing 3'3 ; tarsus *65 ; bill from 

 gape -75. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Sikhim to the Daphla hills in 

 Assam; the Khasi hills; the Naga hills; Manipur; Karen nee ; 

 probably Arrakan. 



C. cyanopolius, Blyth, from the Malay peninsula and islands, is 

 a much brighter bird than C. unicolor, and may be kept distinct. 



//tibits, $c. Mandelli found the nest of this bird in Sikhim in 

 August, a cup of moss and fern-roots placed in a depression in the 

 trunk of a tree about 10 feet from the ground. 



575. Cyornis rubeculoides. The Blue-throated Flycatcher. 



Phoenicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35 ; Gould, Cent. 

 pi. 25, fig. 1. 



Cyornis rubeculoides (Via.), Blyth, Cat. p. 173 ; Ilorxf. 8f M. Cat. i, 

 p^289; Jerd. S. L i, p. 4<;<J| Hume, N. $ E. p. 211; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi, p. 227; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. <>1'.': 

 Hume, Cat. no. 304 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 164 ; Hume, S. F. xi, 

 p. 107 ; Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, ]>. ">. 



Sij.hia rubeculoides (Via.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 44/3 ; Leaue, 

 Birds Ceyl. p. 424 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 287. 



Cyornis dialilaema, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 387 



(1889). 



The Blur-//<rn<i/rJ Jtrdbmtxt, Jerd.; Chatki. Beng. Manzhil-phn, 

 Lepch. 



Coloration. Mule. Forehead and a streak over the eye glis- 



