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secondaries are the same. The tail has a rufous tip. All the under surface is rich 

 rufous ; the feathers on the chin, throat and breast being tipped with dark-brown. 



This was a very common bird aU along our route from Bham6, as far as 

 Momien, where I shot it in the month of June, and where I am inclined to believe 

 it breeds. It was usually found near long grass, or low shrubs. 



^amWj—MUSCICAPIDM. 



Genus Muscicapula, Blyth. 

 86. Muscicapula sapphira, Blyth. 



Mmcicapida sapphira, Blytli, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xii, p. 939, 1843 ; ex Tickell MS. ; Jerdon, 

 lU. Ind. Orn., pi. xxxii, 1849; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 173, 1849; Bonap. 

 Consp., t. i, p. 316, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soe., Bengal, vol. i, p. 29.5, 

 1856; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 471, 1862; God win- Austen, Jovim. As. Soc, Bengal, 1872, 

 vol. xli, p. 172. 



Mmcicapa sapphira, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 263, 1846; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 332, 1869. 



a. i Ponsee, 19th April 1868. 



This specimen differs only in one respect from TickeU's description, but the 

 difference is so trifHag that I cannot regard it as giving the bird any higher position 

 than that of a local variety. It is this — there is no broad median ferruginous line, 

 properly so called, on the ventral aspect. This band of colour is broken up by the 

 blue of the side of the neck and breast into two areas, one on the chin and anterior 

 part of the throat, bounded below by a gorget of blue, mixed with some ferrugi- 

 nous feathers, and succeeded by a smaU ferruginous area on the commencement of 

 the breast, bounded below and on the sides by a broad blue area, in which a number 

 of white feathers occur. The abdomen and under taU coverts are white. Jerdon 

 states that the feet are brown, whereas Tickell describes these as black, the colour I 

 found them to be. 



Genus C torn is, Blyth. 

 87-. Ctoenis rubbculoides, Vigors. 



Phmnicura mheculoides, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1831, p. 35 ; Gould, Cent. Himal. B., pi. xxv, 



fig. 1, 1832. 

 Niltava brevipes, Hodgs., Ind. Eev., vol. i, p. 650, 1837. 

 M-uscicapa ruiecida, Swains., Monogr. Flycatch., p. 221, pi. xxvii c, 1838. 

 Cyornis mbecidoides, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xii, p. 941, 1842 ; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As. 



Soc, Bengal, p. 173, 1849 ; Bonap. Consp., i, p. 330, 1850 ; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. Ind. Co., vol. ii, p. 289, 1854 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 466, 1862 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 371 ; 



Blanford,Ibis, 1870,p.468; Holdsw., Proc Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 442; Blyth & Walden, Journ. 



As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 103, 1875 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 105 ; 



Brooks, t. c, p. 235; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 353; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 339; 



W. T. Blanford, t. c, p. 484. 



