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Arabia. If rightly identified, however, this would seem to be a very 

 aberrant Wheatear ; and its colouring is much as in the female Siphia 

 leucura (p. 125 ante). 



Grandala ccelicolor, Hodgson, J. A. S. XII, 447. This very re- 

 markable and (the male) most splendidly coloured bird, from the snow 

 region of the Himalaya, appears to me to be decidedly allied to the 

 Wheatears. 



lanthia, nobis : Nemura, Hodgson (a name long pre-occupied in 

 entomology), Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 198. The birds of this divi- 

 sion are closely allied to the Robins {Erythaca), from which they dif- 

 fer in their more delicate conformation, longer wings (reaching half- 

 way down the tail), much weaker bill, longer and more slender claws — 

 especially that of the hind-toe, and in the sexual diversity of colouring. 

 The males (so far as known) are deep blue above, with lighter blue on 

 the forehead and over the eye ; and in the two first species (which are 

 typical), this colour is confined to the rump and tail of the other sex. 



1. I. hyperythra, nobis. Length about five inches and a half, of wing 

 three and one-eighth, and tail two and a quarter ; bill to gape nine- 

 sixteenths, and tarse an inch. Upper-parts of male deep indigo-blue, 

 brightening to ultramarine on the forehead and above the eyes, and 

 upon the shoulder of the wing ; the wings and tail black, the fea- 

 thers margined with blue externally: lower-parts bright yellowish- 

 ferruginous, confined to a narrowish streak on the middle of the throat 

 and fore-neck ; the lower tail-coverts and centre of the belly white. 

 Female, a rich brown above, approaching to the colour of Erythaca 

 rubecula, or rather the feathers are merely tipped with this colour, 

 shewing more or less of the cinereous-dusky tint within : tail blue as 

 in the male, the rump a lighter and more greyish-blue ; there is also a 

 little blue on the shoulder of the wing, and a greyish-blue supercilium 

 brightening posteriorly : lower-parts tawney-brown, or subdued fulvous, 

 except the lower tail-coverts which are white. Bill and feet dusky in 

 both sexes. From Darjeeling. 



2. I. rufilatuSi (Hodgson), and the female — Nemura cyanura t 

 Hodgson, Ann. Mag. N. H. 1845, p. 198. I suspect that the female 

 of this bird is also the Erythaca Tytleri of Prof. Jameson, noticed 

 (but not described) in the ' Transactions of the Wernerian Society,' and 

 also in the ' Edinbro' Philosophical Journal' for July 1835, p. 214, where 



