THE SMALL FAIRY BLUE-CHAT. 
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Bill black ; legs liglit brown ; irides deep brown. {Limborg .) 
Length 7 inches, tail 3^ wing 3*6, tarsus '9, bill from gape '1. The 
female is of the same size. 
The descriptions are taken from the types in Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay^s 
museum. They were procured by Mr. Limborg in Tenasserim — the male 
at Taoo at an elevation of 5000 feet, the female on the Mooleyit range at 
an elevation of 2000 feet. 
This species is certainly a Niltava. It has a perfectly smooth tarsus, and 
cannot therefore be admitted into the genus Muscitrea, where Mr. Hume 
wishes to locate it. 
The White-tailed Blue-Chat was procured in Tenasserim by Mr. Lim- 
borg at the localities mentioned above, and also by Mr. Davison at Meetan 
on the slopes of Mooleyit mountain. It has not yet been found else- 
where. 
According to Mr. Davison this species is eminently a forest bird. It is 
very restless, moving about through the trees constantly and never 
descending to the ground. It has the habit of rapidly expanding its tail, 
thus showing the white on it. 
283. NILTAVA MACGMGOHI^. 
THE SMALL FAIRY BLUE-CHAT. 
Phcenicnra macgrigoriae, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 1-52. Niltava macgrigori^, 
Jei'd. B. Ind. i. p. 475 ; Hume, Nests and Eygs, p. 214 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Btirm. 
p. 102 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p, 231 ; Skarpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 405 ; 
Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 93. Niltava vivida, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 475. 
Description. — Male. Upper plumage bright purplish blue ; the forehead, 
supercilium, rump, upper tail-coverts and a spot on each side of the neck 
cobalt j lesser wing-coverts brown, tipped with purplish blue ; median 
coverts entirely purplish blue ; greater coverts and quills dark brown, 
edged with blue ; tail with the central feathers entirely blue, the others 
with the outer webs blue and the inner dark brown ; feathers at the base 
of the upper mandible, in front of and below the eye, and the lores black; 
cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat and breast purple ; remainder of the lower 
plumage ashy, becoming albescent on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 
under wing-coverts ashy white. 
The female has the whole upper plumage olive-brown_, tinged with 
rutous j the tail rufous-brown ; wing-coverts and quills brown, edged with 
ruious-brown j the forehead and sides of the head mixed brown and 
