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BIEDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
fulvous ; a spot of brilliant blue on eacb side of the neck ; lower plumage 
ochraceous buff, paling on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. 
The young males have the whole upper plumage, sides of the head, throat 
and breast blackish brown, streaked with fulvous; the remainder of the 
lower plumage ashy ; tail and wings like the adult, but less bright. 
Bill black : irides dark brown : feet and claws duskv. 
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Length 4"8 inches, tail 2*1, wing 2"6, tarsus '7, bill from gape "6. 
The Small Fairy Blue-Chat was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Karennee, at an elevation of 3000 feet. His specimens, which I have 
examined, agree exactly with Himalayan examples. Mr. Davison met 
with one specimen in the hills to the north of Pahpoon. It has not been 
noted from any other locality in Burmah. 
It extends into India, where it is found in the hills of Eastern Bengal, 
Assam and the Himalayan range of mountains up to Simla. 
This species is said to make a globular nest of moss on the ground or in 
the hole of a decayed tree, and the eggs are said to resemble those of 
iV. sundara in colour. 
Genus DIGENEA, Hodgs. 
284. DIGENEA MONILIGER. 
THE WHITE-GORGETED FLYCATCHER. 
Dimorpha monileger, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26. Anthipes gularis, Bl. 
J. A. 8. B. xvi. p. 122 ; id. Ibis, 1865, p. 44. Anthipes moniliger, Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 477 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 103 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 232 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 93. Digenea moniliger, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 460, 
pi. xiv. f. 1. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, lores and a broad but short supercilium, 
hardly passing beyond the eye, fulvous ; upper plumage olive-brown, 
tinged with rufous on the rump ; upper tail-coverts and tail reddish 
brown ; wing-coverts and wings brown, edged with rufous ; sides of the 
head olive-brown ; chin and throat white, surrounded by a distinct line of 
black ; lower plumage brown, becoming albescent on the abdomen. 
The/emotZe appears to be the same. 
The young have the white of the throat mixed with black, and want the 
black surrounding line. 
Bill black ; legs and claws pale fleshy ; irides dark brown. {Jerdon.) 
Length 5 inches, tail 2, wing 2*4, tarsus "8, bill from gape '6. 
Mr. Blyth recorded the present species from Arrakan many years ago. 
