160 AIYIAGRINNE. 



to 3 ; tarsus, 0'6 to 075; bill from gape, 071 to 0'8; bill at 

 front, 0-4. 



Bill dark cobalt-blue, edges and tip black, edges of eyelids blue ; 

 eyelids plumbeous ; irides deep brown ; legs ranging from cobalt- 

 blue to plumbeous. 



Above pale lazuline-blue, with the head and neck paler but 

 brighter blue ; a large occipital spot of short erectile feathers, and 

 a slender jugular one, silky-black ; throat, neck, and breast, pale 

 blue ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts, bluish-white. 



The female is bluish-ashy above ; the head and neck pale blue, 

 and the abdomen white ; and it has neither the occipital crestlet 

 nor jugular black streak. 



The Black-napped Blue Fly-catcher within our limits is confined 

 to the Ghats region. It has been recorded from Belgaum, Nagar, 

 and Ratnagiri. It oceurs sparingly all along the Sahyadri Range 

 as far north as Khandalla. 



GENUS, Leucocerca, Swains. 



Bill rather long, depressed, wide throughout, except at tip, 

 which is slightly hooked and notched ; nostrils apert, but over- 

 hung by some long nareal bristles ; rictal bristles very long, 

 slender ; wings with the first four quills unequally graduated ; 

 fourth and fifth quills sub-equal and longest ; tail lengthened, 

 wide, rounded or graduated ; tarsus moderate, strong ; feet 

 moderate ; lateral toes unequal, 



Leucocerca albicollis, Vieill. 



291. Leucocerca fuscoventris, Frankl. Jerdon's Birds of India* 

 Vol. I, p. 451 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 

 p. 395. 



THE WHITE THROATED FANTAIL. 



Length, 7*5 ; expanse, 9'25 ; wing, 313 ; tail, 4'5 ; tarsus, 075 ; 

 bill at front, 0'3. 



Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 



Sooty brown-black throughout, tinged with ashy in the 

 abdomen and back, and dusky-brownish on the wings and outer 

 tail-feathers, the three outermost of which are tipped with 

 dirty- white ; a very short supercilium ; chin and throat white. 



The occurrence of the White-throated Fantail within our limits 

 is doubtful. 



Franklin is said to have procured it in Central India. Adams, 

 who evidently mistook it for L. aureola, says it is common 

 at Poona. Colonel Sykes includes it in the Birds of the 

 Decuan. 



Leucocerca aureola, Vieill. 



292. Leucocerca albofrontata, Frankl. Jerdon's Birds of India, 

 _ Vol. I, p. 452 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, 

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