370 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
discover the whereabouts of the bird by its note, a sort of 
prolonged chur r-r-r. The follow ing are the dimensions, colours, 
&ec., taken in the flesh of ten specimens, five males and five 
temales :-— 
Males.—Length, 5:0 to 5°65; expanse, 7:5 to 7-9; tail, 1°8 to 
2°2; wing, 2°4 to 2°5; tarsus, 0°75 to 0°84; bill from gape, 0°58 
to 0°6; weight, 0°35 to 0-4 oz. 
Females.— Length, 4°8 to 5:0; expanse, 7°1 to 7:4; tail, 1:7 te 
1°75; wing, 2°21 to 2°35; tarsus, 0°75 to 0°8; bill from gape, 
0:55 to 0°6 ; weight, 0°25 to 0°35 oz. 
In both sexes the legs, feet, and claws vary from fleshy to pale 
plumbeous brown; irides dark wood brown. 
301,.—Stoporala melanops, Vig. The Verditer Fly- 
catcher. 
Jerdon gives this species from the Nilghiris, but I myself 
have never met with it in Southern India; it must be, I think; 
of extremely rare occurrence. 
302.—Stoporala albicaudata, Jerd. The Nilghiri 
Verditer Flycatcher. 
A very common bird on the Nilghiris and the slopes to about 
4,000 feet elevation ; it also occurs at considerably lower eleva- 
tions, but in much diminished numbers and only where the 
country is well wooded. It is a permanent resident, breeding 
in holes of trees, banks, walls, &e. ‘The male during the breeding 
season has a pleasing but rather feeble song. The following are 
the dimensions, &c., of a large number of specimens recorded in 
the flesh; the sexes do not appear to differ materially in size. 
Length, 5°83 to 66; expanse, 9°6 to 10°2; tail, 2°4 to 2°85 ; 
wing, 3°0 to 3:2 ; tarsus, 072 to 0°78; bill from gape, 0°68 to 
0:71 ; weight, 0°62 to 0°8 oz. 
304.—Cyornis rubeculoides, Vig. The Blue-throated 
Red-breast. 
Occurs sparingly about the base of the Nilghiris and in the 
Wynaad. I obtained only two specimens, both males, in 
February and March—one at Seegore, the other at Nellacotta 
in the Wynaad. 
306.—Cyornis tickelli, Bly. ‘Vickell’s Blue Red- 
breast. 
This species is not uncommon in the drier and less densely 
wooded portions of the slopes of the Nilghiris and beyond into’ 
Wynaad and Mysore. I obtained one specimen, a male, close 
