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on the throat and foreneck ; the breast more or less brown, and 

 the flanks bright ferruginous. 



The female is pale brown, with a trace of blue on the shoulder, 

 a greyish blue supercilium ; margins to the tertiaries, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail, blue, as in the male, but much 

 lighter ; sides of the neck and breast pale olive-brown ; the mid- 

 dle of the belly, lower tail-coverts, and the middle line of the 

 throat white ; the flanks ferruginous as in the male. 



Bill dusky ; legs brown ; irides dark brown. Length 5| inches ; 

 extent 10 ; wing 3^ ; tail 2f ; bill at front f ; tarsus 1. 



This very prettily plumaged bird is found throughout the 

 Himalayas from the N. W. to Sikhim. It is only a winter resident 

 in Sikhim, however, and I suspect throughout the hills also. It 

 is said to be common in China, Central and "Northern Asia, 

 and in Japan. It is very numerous about Darjeeling in the cold 

 weather, from 4,000 feet upwards. It keeps to the forests, perches 

 low on small trees and brushwood, and descends to the ground 

 to feed on insects of various kinds. It is not unfrequently seen 

 feeding on the bridle paths and roads. The name Manzhil-pho is 

 properly applied to this species, which is a well known bird, but 

 it is given indiscriminately to other species of this genus, to Lar- 

 vivora, and even to the blue Fly-catchers, Cyornis and Muscicapula. 



509. Ianthia hyperythra, Blyth. 



J. A. S., XVI., 132— Blyth, Cat. 1001— Horsf., Cat. 465. 



The Kusty-throated Blue Wood-chat. 



Descr. — Male, upper parts deep indigo-blue, brightening to 

 ultramarine above the eves and on the shoulder ; wings and tail 

 black, the feathers outwardly edged blue ; beneath dark yellowish 

 ferruginous, confined to a narrow streak on the middle of the 

 throat and foreneck ; lower tail-coverts, and centre of the lower 

 parts of the belly, white. 



The female is a rich brown olive ; the tail blue as in the male ; 

 the rump lighter and more greyish ; there is also a little blue on 

 the shoulder, and a greyish blue supercilium ; the lower parts 

 are tawny brown, or subdued fulvous; the lower tail-coverts 

 white. 



