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To whatever genus this latter ma} r be ultimately assigned, 

 (there may really be, as Bonaparte (Consp. 329) and Gray give 

 it, a genus Hylocliaris, Boie of 1827, founded on S. Midlers, IJ. 

 luscinia, in which case this generic name will stand) into that 

 same genus must our present bird be placed. 



I only possess at present two adult males of this species ; 

 they measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 7-8, 7-45 ; expanse, 12-0, 11*5 ; tail, 2-9, 2-7 ; wing, 

 3-72,3-6; tarsus, 0'9, 0'9 ; bill from gape, 1-02, l'O ; weight, 

 1-25 andl-2oz. 



The bill was black, whitish at the gape; the legs, feet, and 

 claws pale fleshy brown ; irides deep brown. 



Lores and a narrow baud on the forehead black ; rest of fore- 

 head and a broad band from forehead over the eyes, cobalt 

 blue ; crown and occiput in oue specimen the same, but rather 

 duller, in the other very much duller, being much intermingled 

 with the colour of the back. The entire mantle deep indigo blue, 

 a little brighter and inclining to cobalt on the shoulder of the 

 wing. On the rump the greyish white bases of the feathers show 

 through a little, but I doubt if this would be the case in life* 



The quills, greater coverts and 4 central tail feathers deep 

 hair brown, all the feathers edged externally with the colour 

 of the back. Four outer pair of tail feathers similar, but with 

 more or less of the inner webs pure white, the outer most of 

 all with only a marginal band ; the next two pairs, with nearly 

 the whole inner webs, white, and the 4th with the central portion 

 of the feather white, the white at the base on both webs, but 

 not extending to either margin, and on the outer web, only 

 occupying the basal half, while in the inner it reaches to within 

 one-fifth from the tip. Chin, throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, sides 

 of neck, breast and sides, the same colour as the back, but 

 duller and a trifle more slatey. 



Greater portion of abdomen and flanks white, shaded and 

 streaked and overlaid with slatey dusky or slatey blue. 



Veut and lower tail-coverts pure white ; tibial plumes slatey ; 

 edge of wing blue ; axillaries and wing lining silky grey. 



There are two species, both obtained at no great distance from 

 where this species was procured, which at first sight greatly 

 remind one of it. 



First, Myiomela leucura. — This has a much slenderer bill, 

 longer tail and tarsi, is much blacker and darker everywhere, 

 has the vent, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts black, the white 

 in the tail on the outer webs, and a more or less concealed 

 white tuft on either side at the base of the throat. 



Second, Niltava grandis ; but this has a somewhat differently 

 shaped bill, the whole basal portion of the upper mandible hidden 



