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primaries dusky, the secondaries externally margined with olive, and 

 the tertiaries with greyish or whitish-grey, becoming abraded on the 

 worn plumage : greater coverts of the wing whitish-tipped, forming a 

 slight wing-band. Bill blackish, and legs dusky or deep brown. 

 The colour of this bird would ally it to Butalis, while its form is 

 strictly that of Muscicapula. It inhabits the S. E. Himalaya, and 

 Central India: being not rare in the Midnapore jungles. 

 Cyornis, nobis, XII, 940. To this may be referred — 



1. C. rubeculoides, (Vig.): Niltava brevipes, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. 

 1837, p. 651: Etherial Warbler of Latham, and the female agrees 

 with the supposed female of his Blue Indian Warbler. Inhabits all 

 northern India, visiting the plains during the cold season. On the 

 eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, it extends southward to the Tenas- 

 serim provinces ; but in southern India is represented by the next. 



2. C. banyumas, (Horsf): Muscicapa cantatrix, Tem. Hab. Neil- 

 gherries, Java. 



3. C. elegans, (Tem,) apud Strickland : C. Tickellice, nobis ; Mus- 

 cicapa hyacintha, apud Tickell, and the female — Muse, rubecula, 

 Swainson. Hab. Central India. — N. B. The Blue Indian Warbler 

 of Latham would suit this species, except that the colour of the upper- 

 parts is stated to be deep blue, instead of light greyish-blue, brighter 

 on the forehead and shoulder of the wing. 



4. C. unicolor, nobis, XII, 1007. Described from the imperfect- 

 ly moulted young. The adult is a larger bird than either of its con- 

 geners, a male measuring nearly seven inches long, the wing three 

 and a quarter, and the tail three inches. Colour a light smalt-blue, 

 approaching to verditer above; the lower-parts paler, inclining to 

 albescent below the breast: forehead and over the eye beautiful 

 smalt-blue, as is also the shoulder of the wing: axillaries light rufes- 

 cent, and a tinge of the same on the lower tail-coverts. From Dar- 

 jeeling. 



5. C. pallipes, (Jerdon), Madr. Journ. No. XXVI, 15. Neil- 

 gherries. 



6. ? Probably Muscicapa rufigaslra, Raffles, Lin. Tr. XIII, 312, 

 Ochromela, nobis. Nearly allied to the last group ; but the Fly- 

 catcher form of bill more pronounced, and the rictal vibrissa longer; 

 tarsi also rather longer, the wings more rounded, and the style of 

 colouring altogether different — bright rusty, with black cap and wings, 



