XEMURA 69 



NEMURA, Hodgs. 1845. 



103. REDFLANKED BLUETAIL 



NEMURA CYANURA. 



Nemura cyaimra (Pall.), Reis. Russ. Reichs. ii. A pp. p. 709 (1773) ; 

 "(Midd.) Sib. Reis. ii. p. 177, tab. 15, fig. 5, (pull) ; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 355, pi. 55 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 255 ; Tacz. F.O. 

 Sib. 0. p. 343. 



$ ad. (E. Siberia). Upper parts and sides of bead greyish blue 

 washed with cobalt on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; quills brown 

 externally margined with blue ; a shoulder patch cobalt ; tail blue ; a 

 broad eye-stripe white narrowly edged above with blue ; feathers in front 

 of the eye blackish - under parts creamy white, flanks bright orange ; bill 

 black ; legs reddish brown ; iris brown. Culmen 0'45, wing 3'15, tail 2'5, 

 tarsus 0'9 inch. The female is olivaceous brown above washed with blue 

 on the shoulders and rump ; tail blackish grey margined with blue ; sides 

 of head and neck brown marked with buff ; forehead and eye-streak buff ; 

 under parts dull white, the throat tinged with buff, the breast with 

 brownish grey, and the flanks are orange-rufous. The male often breeds 

 in immature plumage, in which it differs but little from the female. The 

 young are spotted like those of the Redbreast. 



Hab. The Perm Government, west of the Ural to Eastern 

 Siberia, China, and Japan, as far north as the Yenesei and Udskoi- 

 Ostrog and as far south as Mongolia, wintering probably in 

 south China. 



In its habits it is said to be as tame and confiding as a Red- 

 breast, to which it bears some resemblance, but has no affinity 

 at all with the Flycatchers with which it has been united. It 

 frequents woods, groves, and gardens, as well as bush-covered 

 plains, and is also found in the mountains. Its call-note i& 

 short and sharp, resembling the syllables keke, keke. The nest 

 is placed on the ground amongst the stones well concealed 

 amongst the herbage, but I do not find any description of its 

 eggs. Young birds fully fledged were obtained at Udskoi- 

 Ostrog on the 15th July. 



104. SUBSP. NEMURA RUFILATA. 



Nemura rujilata (Hodgs.) P.Z.S. p. 27 (1845) ; N. cyanura, (nee. Pall.) ; 

 Dresser, ii. p. 355, pi. 55 ( ad. desc. and fig.); (Seebohm), Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. v. p. 256 ; (Gates), F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 106. 



< ad. (Sikhim). Upper parts and sides of neck and head deep 

 Prussian blue washed with bright ultramarine on the shoulders and rump ; 



