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aid eyebrow are white, surmounted by a narrow line of cobalt- 
blue, and the under-surface is cream-coloured; while in 
T. rufilatus the lores and eyebrow are brilliant cobalt, and the 
under surface is greyish white. The female 7. cyanurus is 
easily distinguished from the same sex of 7. rufilatus by being 
more brown on the upper surface, cream-coloured on the 
abdomen, and by having the lores paler. 
Gilgit examples of T. rujilatus are paler than specimens 
from Sikkim with which I have compared them. The spe- 
cimen from which Major Biddulph took his description of 
“the plumage before the first moult’? was probably not 
correctly referred to this species, in which the tail is never 
“ hair-brown.” 
The immature male of 7. rujfilatus is precisely of the same 
colour as the adult female, and, as has been several times 
recorded, breeds in that plumage. The immature female 
differs from the adult in having the feathers of the head pale- 
centred, the blue on the rump and tail paler, the white throat- 
stripe only faintly indicated, and the rust-colour on the flanks 
less extended. 
A nestling obtained on the 14th of August is profusely 
spotted on the body above and below, and the head is streaked. 
The upper surface is olive-brown, each feather with a yel- 
lowish central spot or streak and a dark brown margin; the 
under surface is pale yellowish, the feathers with complete 
dull-black margins ; the wings are coloured as in the adult 
female; the tail, which is under an inch in length, dull 
greyish blue on the upper surface; bill pale brown, brown on 
culmen ; feet and gape pale fleshy ; claws brown, pale at tips. 
90.—Calliope pectoralis, Gowld. (513.) 
A summer visitor only. An adult male has the wing 2:9, 
and a female 2°65. The very distinct C. tschebaiewi of 
Prjevalsky does not extend so far to the west as Gilgit. 
91,—Cyanecula suecica, Lin. (514.) 
This species is very common with us throughout March 
and up to the third week in April; and again during the 
autumn migration, from the third week in August to the third 
week in September. I doubt its breeding in the district ; but 
Severtzoff records it as breeding in Turkestan, and it certainly 
breeds in Yarkand. In nineteen specimens the wings vary in 
length from 2°6 to 2°95. 
92.—Cyanecula leucocyanea, Brehm. (514 bis.) 
Lest any one should doubt the correctness of identification 
of the bird in my collection referred to by Major Biddulph 
