MUSCICAPIN^. 469 



Bill black ; legs flesliy brown ; irldes dark brown. Length 6 

 inches ; whig 3 ; tail 2^\j ; bill at front rather more than y^. 



Two or three of the feathers on the forehead were pale blue, 

 which shewed that it would probably have become quitu blue 

 above. It appeared to me at the time to differ from C. hanyamas 

 by a slightly longer bill and some other trifling differences. If 

 my suggestion be correct, that it is the same bird as C. rvficauda, 

 the rufous breast may, in this species, be the mark of the male 

 only, and the birds described as rujicauda and cegiialicauda might 

 be females. If ruhecula be eventually proved to be the same, the 

 adult male is probably blue above, as in the others of this genus. 



There remain two birds to be included in this genus, which differ 

 from the previous species by their larger and stronger bills, and they 

 might perhaps form a separate section. The one is allied in its 

 coloring to Muscicapula, and the other (which is probably a female) 

 has the usual coloring of that sex of Cyornis. They are each known 

 at present from a single specimen. 



308. Cyornis magnirostris, Blyth. 



J. A. S., XVIIL, 814— Blyth, Cat. 1020. 



The Large-billed Redbreast. 



Descr. — Above brown, darker and less tinged with tawny than 

 the female of ruheculoides ; wings and tail inclining to ferruginous, 

 and a very conspicuous ring of rufescent feathers round the eye ; 

 beneath bright ferruginous, paler on the throat, and pure white 

 on the belly and lower tail-coverts ; the flanks brown. 



Bill dusky ; legs pale whitish. Length 6 inches ; wings 3 ; 

 tail 2\ ; bill at front 13 mill. ; tarsus |. 



This bird is colored very much like the female of C. ruhecu- 

 loides ; but the bill is much larger and more robust, almost indeed 

 TephrodornisAJkQ. It was procured at Darjeeling. 



309. Cyornis pallipes, Jerdon. 



Muscicapa apud Jerdon, Cat. 149. 



