HYPOTIIYMIS. 49 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white //. azitrca, p. 49. 



b. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts blue II. tytleri, p. 50. 



601. Hypothymis azurea. The Indian BlacTc-naped Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa azurea, Bodd. Tabl. PL Evil. p. 41 (1783). 



Myiagra caerulea ( Vieill.}, Blyth, Cat. p. 204. 



Myiagra azurea (Bodd.}, Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, p. 138 j Jerd. B. I. i, 



"p. 450 ; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 198. 

 Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.}, Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 055 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 290 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 274 ; Oates, B. B. 



i, p. 265 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 159 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 



2nd ed. ii, p. 27. 

 llypothymis ceylonensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 277 (1870); 



Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 408 ; pi. xviii. 



The Black-nttped />//// Flycatcher, Jerd. ; Kuht l-at-l-ntia, Beng. 



Fig. 20. Bill of H. azurea. 



Coloration. Male. A patch on the Dape, forehead, angle of the 

 chin, and a crescentic bar across the fore neck black ; abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts white, or faint bluish white ; re- 

 mainder of lower plumage a/Aire-blue ; wings and coverts dark 

 brown edged with blue; tail brown, suffused with blue on the 

 median pair of feathers and the outer webs of the others ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Female. Head above azure-blue ; sides of the head, chin, and 

 throat duller blue, the ear-coverts almost brown ; breast ashy 

 blue ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white tinged with 

 grey ; wings, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown ; tail 

 darker brown, the outer edges washed with blue. 



I have not been able to examine a nestling of this species. 



Iris dark brown ; eyelids plumbeous, the edges blue ; bill dark 

 blue, the edges and tip black : mouth yellow ; legs plumbeous ; 

 claws horn-colour. 



Length about 6*5 : tail 3 ; wing 2*8 ; tarsus '7 ; bill from gape 

 75. 



//. ceylonensis, from Ceylon, is said to differ in the male wauling 

 the black bar across the throat, but I am of opinion that this 

 alleged difference does not really hold good. Ceylonese specimens 

 of this Flycatcher are not common in collections, but the British 

 Museum contains six males. Of these, five have no black throat- 

 bar, but they als<> ha\i> no nape-patch, which shows them to be 



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