LAEVIVOEA BETJNNEA. 
(THE INDIAN WOODCHAT.) 
Larvivora hrunnea, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1837, vi. p. 102 (female). 
Larvivora cyana, Hodgson, t. c. p. 102 (male) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 145 (1863) ; 
Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 454 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 324 (1874). 
Calliope cyana (Rodgs.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 169 (1849); Layard & Kelaart, 
Prodromus, Cat. B. App. p. 57 (1853); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. 
p. 266. 
Plmnicura superciliaris, Jerdon, Cat. B. S. India, Madr. Journ. 1844, xiii. p. 170. 
Lojrvivora superciliaris (Jerdon), Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 16 ; Brooks, Str. Eeath. 1875, p. 240 ; 
Fairbank, ibid. 1876, p. 259. 
White-browed Pedstart-, The Blue Larvivora, Hodgson; The Blue Wood-Chat (Jerdon). 
Manzhil-pho, Lepchas. Bobin of Planters in Ceylon. 
Adult male and female. Length 5-3 to 5-6 inches ; vring 2-9 to 3-1 ; tail 1-9 to 2-1 ; tarsus 1-0 to I'l ; mid toe and 
daw 0-8 ; bill to gape 0-75. 
Male. Iris brown ; bill blackish brown above, under mandible brown, pale at base and at gape ; legs and feet delicate 
fleshy, claws concolorous. 
Above, with the wing-coverts and tail dull blue ; lores, cheeks, beneath the gape, and ear-coverts black, blending on 
the sides of the neck into the blue ; a conspicuous white supercilium, and in some the chin and a thin bordering 
line below the cheeks white ; wings blackish brown, the outer webs of the quills bluish, the margins of the outer 
primaries the palest ^ throat, chest, breast, and flanks hue orange-rufous ; the under tail-coverts, vent, and 
abdomen white, blending into the surrounding colour ; thighs bluish brown externally. 
Female. Iris brown ; bill not so dark as in male : legs and feet dusky fleshy. 
Head, upper surface, and wing-coverts dark olivaceous brown, greenest on the back, and changing into a rusty colour 
on the upper tail-coverts ; quills brown, the outer webs of the primaries, secondaries, and primary-coverts rustv 
brovTO, the longer primary somewhat pale at the edge ; tail rusty olive-brown ; an orbital fringe of fulvous"; 
tips of the loral feathers dark, the bases being fulvous ; ear-coverts concolorous with the head, but striped with 
fulvous ; throat, chest, breast, and flanks rusty fulvous, paling to buff on the gorge and chin, and with the 
feathers of the fore neck more or less tipped with dusky ; cheek-feathers tipped with olivaceous ; abdomen, vent, 
and under tail-coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts fulvescent. 
I ery old bird ? Head, hind neck, and back a darker or less olivaceous brown than the above, with a bluish cast on the 
erowm ; the wing-coverts and the tips of the lower back-feathers, as w^ell as the upper tail-coverts, dull bluish ; 
quills and greater wing-coverts brown, edged wdth rusty; tail rusty browm ; lores and orbital fringe as in the 
above ; the under surface a much brighter rufous than in the mature female ; some of the throat-feathers tipped 
with dusky. ^ ^ 
This is a description of a presumed female (carbolized) which I received from Mr. Thwaites of Ilakgala. I have little 
doubt as to its being a female, on account of the absence of the black lores and supercilium. 
Youmj. Males in the first year are dull bluish above, with the lores only black surmounted by a short white stripe or 
s])ot ; throat whitish ; chest and breast as in female. With age the black extends over the cheeks and ear-coverts. 
Eemales are olivaceous above, brownest on the head, and changing into rusty on the upper tail-coverts ; wings and 
tail brown, more or loss edged wdth rusty ; lores pale, orbital fringe whitish ; ear-coverts pale-shafteil ; chin and 
gorge whitish, tinged with the hne of the chest and flanks, which is ohvaceous fulvous; lower parts as in the 
adult. Scarcely any two examples are alike ; the younger the bird is the more olivaceous are the upper tints, and 
the more dusky the chest and sides of breast. In some there is a brownish wmsh across the chest, and the forehead 
is rusty. 
