HYPOTBTMIS CEYLONENSIS. 
(THE CEYLONESE AZURE FLYCATCHER.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Myiagra cm'ulm (VieUl.), Layard & Kelaart, Prodromus, App. p. 58 (1853); Layard, Ann. 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 126. 
Myiasra a^ea^i ) Jerdon, B. of Ind. i, p. 450 (1862). io pt ; Logge, J. A. S. (Ceylon 
ml pm 8- p. 440; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 18, et 
Ilypothymis ceylmensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. iv, p. 277 (1879). 
The Blue Flycatcher, Europeans in Ceylon. 
^Tarawa, Sinhalese (applied to small Flycatchers). 
Similis //. azurem, sed macula nuchali nigra parvissima et fascia nigra jugulari nulla distinguenda. 
0-5; bill 
JMe Iris dark brown ; bill dull cobalt-blue ; legs and feet dusky blue or bluisb plumbeous. 
Head neck back, wing-coyerts, tbroat, and chest azure-bluo, the head and throat of a brighter though paler hue than 
the rest ; a spot above the nostril and a small patch on the nape velvety black ; wingf brown, edged uRhltie 
blnkE ^ m ‘-^Momen, and uulr tail-coverts white • thkdis 
bluish ; under wing-eoverts bluish, edged and tipped with white. ’ ^ 
Female. Bill duller blue than male ; legs and feet paler 
Ilciad, hind neck, and throat cmruleau blue, less brilliant than the male, and shading on the chest and back into brownish 
rou>uj. In first plumage the iris is brown ; bill blackish, the tip of the under mandible lightish • tarsi bluish feet 
dusky. The male has the head and throat dull blue ; chest bluish grey; back and wings irsv brown the t 
sSpe" walhirg. P'^t^h’and throat- 
Ohs. Mr. Sharpe has separated the Ceylon Azure Flycatcher from its Indian relative (//. azurea) on account of the 
Tin' • 4^1 ™™®’ small series proves, the insular bird certainly differs from the continental 
altho'unh”Xa the chest-feathers of several males, and can find no trace whatever of any black tippings' 
blncl' h ’ } S'A ^ y tlieir undersides are hlachish brown, and, further, the tips of the feathers where the 
1' EH regular, slightly upturned, transverse line, and contrast in their brighter blue with the 
exhibit a more or loss well-developed jugular streak ,MnToL%t L ‘Lriyi\hTS 
ineasures in the wing 2'8, an “Indian ” 2-75, one from Nepal 2-9, and one from Bintulu 2-75 TT.- 
closely allied species from the Philippines Flores and other islqnrls H’-fP • • v • 7'^’ “rc*pitahs is a 
«i,ed with bluish iuste d of fe "g . “'■""S'*' »'<» 
iuto-mf ‘’77 '’'™ rly“tel.er is generally dispersed tl,m„gl,„„t the jungles and forests of the 
mtco., not raugutg above the loner hill-distriots, exeept, perhaps in U.a ajd fn the ranges to the 
