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aries brown, edged with chestnut ; tertiaries wholly chestnut, with 

 l-tlack shafts. Lower plumage, from breast to middle of abdomen, grey, 

 paling to whitish on lower abdomen ; lower tail-coverts white, with 

 rufous tino-e. Female. Somewhat similar to male, but smaller m size 

 (190 mm. or 7.5 in.), the chestnut of the upper plumage paler and the 

 grey of the lower plumage darker. 



Didribution. There appears to be no previous record of this 

 species in Siam. I obtained two specimens in my garden, one in 1913 

 (y July or September) and other in September 19l4, and both have 

 been identified by Mr. H. C. Robinson. T. incii is a Chinese form 

 which extends into the Malay Peninsula as a winter visitor (Robinson, 

 A Handlist of the Birds of the Malaij Peninsula, South of the Isthmus 

 ofKra, 1910, p. 13), so it would appear that the birds procured here by 

 me were on migration. If this bd the case, individuals ought also to 

 be obtained at the end of the cold weather, on their return journey 

 eastwards. 



■'^ 38 (601). Hypothymis azurea. The Indian Black- 

 naped Flycatcher . 



Description. Length about 165 mm. (6.5 in.), Male. Head and 

 ueck all round azure blue, except a patch on the nape, the extreme 

 edge of the forehead and a narrow cresentic bar across the base of the 

 neck below, which ai-e black; remainder of upper plumage duller blue; 

 wings dark brown, edged with blue; tail brown, suffused with blue on 

 the median pair of feathers and on the outer webs of the others. 

 Breast blue, shading off into white on abdomen and under tail-coverts. 

 Female. Head and neck all round dull blue; back, wings, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail brown, the outer webs of the quills 

 and the middle tail-feathers faintly washed with blue. Breast ashy 

 1)1 ue; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, the flanks grey. 



Iris dark brown. Bill very dark blue. Mouth greenish yellow. 

 Legs bluish plumbeous to dark blue. 



Habits, etc. A cold weather visitor to Bangkok, where it ap- 

 pears to occur from October to February, though it is not common. 

 Its habits are similar to those of the other flycatchers, i. e., it feeds on 

 5mall insects which it takes in the air by a sudden dart from a perch. 

 As far as my experience goes, the bird is a frequenter of dark under- 

 growth in well-wooded tra'cts, and avoids open country and high trees. 



