ORD. IJVSJESSORES. 



FAM. MUSCIGAPIDM. 



GEN. MUSCICAPULA. 



PLATE XXXII. 



MUSCICAPULA SAPPHIRA. 



SAPPHIRE HEADED FLYCATCHER. 



The vast addition to the species of Muscicajndce made of late, especially in 

 India, having required a revision of the whole group, Mr. Blyth has recently* 

 adopted several new genera, to one of which the subject of the present plate appertains, 

 Mr. Blyth approximates it to the Siphya of Hodgson, from which, says he, it differs 

 in its small size, and feeble legs and toes. I consider that its nearest affinity is with 

 the group Cyoriiis of Blyth. 



I add Mr. Blyth's description of the present bird, which was procured from 

 the hill station of Darjeeling. Colour of the upper parts rich dark purplish blue, 

 inclineing to ultramarine on the rump and upper tail coverts; forehead and crown vivid 

 smalt blue; the lores black; foreneck and breast rich purple, with a broad median 

 line of deep and bright ferruginous; flanks greyish, the belly and forepart of the wings 

 underneath, with the axillaries, white; alars and tail black, edged with blue externally ; 

 bill and feet black. 



Length 5 inch — wing 2^ — tail Igths — bill to gape j^g-ths — tarsus fths. 



* Journ. As. Soc. 1843, page 239, &c. 



