All ricfhtf, reserved. Jantary, 1914. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The L.C.B.A. Show. 
By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., Etc. 
{Continued from fagc. 384, FoZ. TV ■) 
I am not following classiflcation sequence in these notes, 
as in this portion, the birds figured on our frontispiece must 
have the precedence. 
Red-flanked Eush-Robin {lanthia rufilata): Uevdon 
in the " Bii'ds of India" tersely sums up the genus lanthia as 
consisting of birds, the males of which are blue above and 
more or less rufous beneath; p'umage soft, silky and lax bat 
copious: very nearly allied to the true Robins (Eritharns), only 
differing in their more delicate make, longer wings, toes; and 
claws, and, the sexes differing in colouring. They are all 
foresters and shy; insectivorous, but have been observed to 
eat pulpy berries. 
Mr. Ezra's beautiful specimen of this s])ecies, which 
adorns our frontispiece, aptly illustrates the above— it cou'd 
well be de<^cribed ss a slender and graceful Bhie Robin. Tf 
was confiding and steady, tliouq-h not. at present as tight as it 
will be later. Its beauty cannot be done justice to in a word 
picture and oven the artist would have a difficult task to do 
full justice to it in colour. The plumage is soft and silky, and 
the harmony perfect, so softly does one hue grade into another. 
Dexcriplion: Male. Above rich pi'uspian-blue; below, varying 
depths of pale ashy -'brown ; forehead, broad streak above the eye, 
median wing-coveits, rump and upper tail-coverts glistening ultra- 
marine-blue; lores, ear-coverts, eye-region, and tail black, the 
outer webs of the latter strongly suffused with blue; chin, rhroat, 
middle of breast, middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts white; 
flank.s bright rufous-chestnut; bill dusky horn -colour; legs dark 
brown; irides deep brown. Total length 5J inches, of which the 
tail measures over 2i. 
Female: Olive-brown above, with the wing feathers pretty 
generally margined with rufous-brown, tawny-brown below, fulvous 
on the breast, eye streak, small shoulder -patch, rump, upper tail -coverts 
and margins of outer webs of tail-feathers blue, tinged with greenish 
