THE BLUE-THROATED REDBREAST. 
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Bill black ; legs and feet dark reddish horny ; irides very dark brown. 
[Davison.) 
Length 5*5 inches,, tail 2'5^ wing 2'95^ tarsus '65^ bill from gape '55. 
I have described above a male bird procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
in Karennee. I have never seen a female^ nor can I find any description 
of it. As Mr. Blyth confounded two distinct species under the name of 
S. erythaca, I think it better to follow Mr. Sharpe and adopt Verreaux^s 
name. 
A closely allied species is P. luteola, which will probably be found in 
Burmah. The wing-coverts of the male in this bird are white. The female 
is olive-brown above^ with the wing-coverts all tipped with white^ and 
the throat and breast are bright orange. 
In Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay^s collection is a Malaccan bird marked 
S. erythaca. It agrees so perfectly, however, with other birds from 
Borneo which are female P. luteola that I doubt its being the female 
of P. hodgsonij and therefore I have not described it. 
E. sordida, Godw.-Aust. (J. A. S. B. 1874, pt. ii. p. 158), is probably the 
female of P. hodgsoni ; but I have not been able to examine the type. 
The Rusty-breasted Flycatcher was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
in the Karin hills, east of Tonghoo, at 4000 feet elevation. He appears to 
have got only one specimen there. 
Mr. Davison remarks that it is confined to the higher hills of the 
northern and central portions of Tenasserim. He procured the bird in the 
pine-forests north of Pahpoon and near the summit of Mooleyit. 
It has been got in Western China and in the Himalayas, but it appears 
to be an excessively rare bird. 
Genus SIPHIA, Hodgs. 
272. SIPHIA EUBECULOIDES. 
THE BLUE-THROATED REDBREAST. 
Phoenicura rubeculoides, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35. Cyornis mbeculoides, 
Jerd. B. Ind. i. 466 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 211 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 104 ; Bl. 
8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 103 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 227 ; Anders. Ymman 
Exped. p. 619 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 92. Siphia rubeculoides, Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 445 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 424. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and streak over the eye glistening blue ; 
lores and feathers at the base of bill black ; ear- coverts dusky blue ; the 
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