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supercilium are bright blue ; remainder of head, neck, back, and 

 lesser and median wing-coverts dull blue, the feathers with brown 

 fringes ; greater coverts dark brown, suffused with blue on the 

 outer webs and tipped with rufous; quills dark brown, margined 

 with pale rufous ; rump, upper tail-coverts, breast, and lower 



Fig. 28. Head of li.frontaHs. 



plumage chestnut; tail chestnut, except the middle pair of feathers 

 and broad tips to the others, which are black ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries chestnut with blue bases. In summer the fringes 

 to the feathers of the blue parts of the plumage get worn away, 

 leaving those parts pure blue. 



Female. Forehead, crown, nape, scapulars, and back rich brown 

 with a tinge of fulvous ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail as in 

 the male ; quills and coverts brown, edged with, fulvous ; a ring of 

 pale feathers round the eye; chin fulvous; throat and breast 

 fulvous-brown ; remainder of lower parts orange-brown, becoming 

 brighter and purer orange on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. 



The young nestling has the tail similar to that of the adult. 



Bill, legs, feet, and. claws black ; iris deep brown (Hume}. 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3*4 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape -7. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Gilgit and Kashmir to Assam ; 

 the Khasi hills ; North Cachar ; Manipur. This species is seldom 

 found below 5000 feet in summer, and it occurs up to 14,000 feet 

 or even higher at that season. It extends into Tibet and Western 

 China. 



Habits, fyc. Little is known of the nidification of this Redstart ; 

 eggs said to belong to this species, procured in Sikhim in June, 

 measured about *82 by '59. 



640. Ruticilla schisticeps. The White-throated Redstart. 



Rnticilla schisticeps, Hodgs. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nep. Coll. p. 69, App. 



p. 153 (1846) ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 140 ; Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xlvii, pt. 2, 



p. 1, pi. i; Hume, Cat. no. 501 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 351. 

 Ruticilla nigrogularis, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1854, p. 29, pi. xli ; Horsf. 



8f M. Cat. i, p. 307; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 140; Hume, S. F. iv, 



p. 497; id.Cat.no. 502. 



The Slaty -headed Redstart, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and crown cobalt-blue, turning to 

 duller blue on the nape ; feathers at base of upper mandible, sides 



