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whole upper plumage dark blue^ the tail with black shafts and the inner 
webs mostly brown ; wings dark brown^ each feather narrowly edged with 
dark blue ; lesser wing-coverts bright blue ; larger coverts brown, edged 
with dark blue ; cheeks_, sides of the neck, throat and chin dusky blue ; 
breast and upper abdomen bright ferruginous, running up to a point on 
the throat ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 
coverts pale ferruginous. 
The female has the lores albescent ; the upper plumage is olive-brown, 
tinged with ferruginous, most strongly so on the forehead, the feathers 
round the eye and on the upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail brown, edged 
externally with ferruginous ; chin, throat and breast ruddy ferruginous ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts white. 
The young bird is spotted all over with fulvous, and the tips of the 
feathers are blackish ; the wings and tail are apparently from the first as 
in the adult. 
Iris brown ; bill black, flesh-coloured at the gape ; legs and toes pale 
flesh-colour; claws pale horn-colour. 
Length 5*7 inches, tail 2-4, wing 2'75, tarsus '7, bill from gape '7. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Blue-throated Redbreast is a very common winter visitor to the 
whole of British Burmah. Mr. Blyth records it from Arrakan. I have 
found it in every portion of Pegu, alike in the hills and in the plains, from 
the beginning of October to the end of April. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
procured it in Karennee at from 600 to 2000 feet elevation. Mr. Davison 
tells us that it is common throughout Tenasserim and a permanent resident, 
but not ascending the highest hills, and Capt. Bingham obtained it in the 
Thoungyeen valley. 
There is no record of its occurrence in the Malay peninsula or China ; 
but it extends into India and is found over the whole peninsula. It retires 
in summer to the Himalayas to breed. 
This species is found in all kinds of jungle, but more especially in 
thickly wooded localities. 
Two nests found by Capt. Hutton at Mussoorie were made of moss and 
hair-like fibres, and were placed one in a hole in a bank and the other 
in a hole in a rock. The eggs were pale olive-green, marked with dull 
rufous. 
