CYANECULA. 147 



Zool, Sfc, Sind, p. 152; Seehohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 342; 

 Ruticilla phoeaicuroides, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1854, p. 25, pi. Ivii.; Jerd. B. 

 Ind.u.^. 136; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 221. Ruticilla erythroprocta, 

 Gould, apiid. Hume and Render. LaJiore to Yarkand, p. 208 ; apud. 

 Severtz. Turhest. Jevotn. — The Inbian Redstakt. 



Adult Male. — Crown of head ashy grey ; throat, neck, lores, ear- 

 coverts, breast, back and wing-coverts dark brown or black, the 

 feathers edged greyish; wings dusky brown; the primaries and secon- 

 daries margined rufescent on their outer webs ; breast, flanks, under 

 wing-coverts, belly, rump, upper and lower tail-coverts and tail (except 

 the inner, and part of the outer webs of the two central feathers, which 

 are dark brown) uniform chestnut. The female is brownish above ; the 

 edge of the wings, belly, and inner tail-coverts pale rufous; bill and legs 

 dark brown ; irides brown. 



Length. — 6 inches, wing 3-3, tail 2-5, bill at front 0-55. 



Hah. — India generally. Breeds in North China, Mongolia and Eastern 

 Turkistan. Occurs in Sind, Beloochistan, South East Persia and 

 Afghanistan during winter; also in Nepaul, Kashgar, Behar, N. W. 

 Himalayas, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, North Guzerat, the Concan 

 and Deccan to South India, 



Gen. Cyanecula. — Brehm. ; Erithacus, Cuv. 



Bill short, slender; rictal bristles small or obsolete; tarsi notscutel- 

 late ; nostrils at base in a groove ; wings moderate ; 3rd and 4th quills 

 longest. 



Cyanecula suecica, Lin. Sys. Nat. i.Tp. 3S6{partim) Brehm. Vogt. 

 Deutschl. p. 350 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 182 ; Eeugl. Orn. N. O.Afr. i. p. 

 336; Shelley, B. Egypt; Blf. East. Persia, ii. p.. 169; Hume and Davison, 

 Str. F. vi. p. 337 ; Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 433; Murray, 8. F. vii. 

 p. 112; id. Hdbk., Zool., Sfc, 8ind, p. 152; Shelley, Ibis, 1881, 6';*-. 

 F. ix. p. 330 ; viii. 304. Erithacus cseruleculus, Pall. Zoogn Rosso. 

 Asiat. i. p. 480 ; Seehohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 308. Cyanecula 

 caaruleculus, {Pall.) Bp. Consp. i. p. 296; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 223; 

 Jerd. Birds Ind. ii. p. 152. No. 614. — The Indian Blue-Throat. 



Head, neck, back, wings and wing-coverts pale brown ; the feathers 

 of the head slightly centred darker, and the wing-coverts and quills 

 edged paler ; lores dark brown ; supercilium bjiffy white ; chin, cheek, 

 throat and breast, cobalt blue, with a large ferruginous or chestnut 

 spot in the centre of the throat and breast ; below the blue of the breast, 

 a black band, followed by a chestnut one ; rest of under surface buflfy 

 white ; tail rufous or pale ferruginous, the two centre feathers and the 

 terminal third of the others dark brown, lighter on the outermost ; ear- 

 coverts silky rufescent brown; bill dusky; gape yellow; legs dusky 

 brown ; irides dark brown. 



Lenijth. — 5"5 to 6'5 inches, wing 3, tail 2 to 2'25. The female is 

 like the male, but without the pectoral gorget ; the throat, chin and 

 neck buffy white, with a line of dusky brown from the base of the side 



