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THE MAUOON-BHEASTED ELYCATCHER. 263 
Genus PHILENTOMA, Eyton. 
248. PHILENTOMA VELATUM. 
THE MAROON-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 
Drymophila velata, Temm. PI Col. 334. Philentoma velatum, Salvad. Ucc. 
Bom. p. 139 ; Wald. in Bl B. Burm. p. 131 ; ITufne ^ Dav. S. F. yi. pp. 224, 
509 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92 ; Shaiye, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 365. 
Description. — Male. General colour indigo- blue ; forehead^ lores^ chin, 
cheeks and a narrow supercilium black ; throat and breast rich maroon ; 
quills black, the outer webs broadly margined with indigo-blue and the 
tertiaries wholly of this latter colour, but with the shafts black ; central 
, tail-feathers indigo-blue, the others black on the inner web and blue on 
the outer. 
The female is wholly dull indigo-blue, except on the wings and tail, which 
are as in the male. 
The young are similar to the female. 
Legs and feet bluish or purplish black ; bill black ; irides lake to 
crimson. {Davison.) 
Length 8 inches, tail 3*5, wing 3" 7, tarsus '7, bill from gape '9. The 
female is rather smaller. 
Many young birds were procured by ray men in Tenasserim, and they 
were like the female. Mr. Hume, however, thus describes a young male : — 
The entire head and ueck all round, chin, throat, breast and, in fact, 
entire lower parts are a dull chestnut, with only here and there on the 
lower parts patches of new dull cyaneous feathers appearing. 
" The whole of the median and the secondary and tertiary greater 
coverts are tipped, the former very broadly, the latter more narrowly, with 
chestnut, and there are patches of this same colour on the rump, upper 
back and scapulars.'^ 
The Maroon-breasted Flycatcher occurs in Tenasserim, and Mr. Davison 
met with it at numerous places from Meetan, at the foot of Mooleyit, to 
Malewoon at the extreme south. It is a constant resident. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. 
Mr. Davison says of this bird : — " It keeps entirely to the evergreen 
forests, never that I know of straying even to their outskirts. I have 
always met with it in pairs. It has a harsh grating metallic-sounding 
note.'' 
An allied species from the Malay peninsula has been named P. inter- 
medium by Mr. Hume (S. F. ix. p. 113). 
