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Rh w 4. Second primary between the sixth and seventh or equal to seventh. c 5. Wing 2-8 j tail 2-2 C. hodgsoni 9, p. 14. d 5. Wing 2-3 or 2-4 ; tail 17 or 1-8. a 6. Chin, throat, and breast pale buff or sordid white. a 7. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers suffused with blue. C. superciliaris $, p. 17. V. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers fulvous C. astigma $, p. 19. c 7. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers bright ferruginous. C. melanoleucus $, p. 18. b". Chin, throat, and breast orange-chestnut C. sapphira, p. 20.

Muscitrea cyanea, Hume, S. F. v, p. 101 (1877) ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi, p. 207 ; Hume, Cat. no. 2GG bis. Trichastoina leucoproctura, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 306: Hume, S. F. vii, p. 318 Niltava leucoprocta (Tweedd.), Oates, B. B., p. 298. Pachycephala cyanea (Hume), Gadow, B. M. Gat. viii, p. 224.

Fig. 5. Bill of C. cyaneus.

Coloration. Male. Lores and front line of the forehead black ; forehead, crown, nape, and some of the lesser coverts cobalt-blue ; the remaining wing-coverts and the whole upper plumage deep blue ; quills dark brown, edged with blue ; the four middle tail- feathers dull blue, the next pair white on both webs, with a broad black tip, the next two pairs nearly entirely white on the inner web, the outermost pair narrowly white on the inner web ; sides of the head and neck, chin, throat, and breast dull blue ; abdomen and sides of the body bluish grey; vent and under tail-coverts pure white; under wing-coverts ashy. The disposition of white in the tail varies somewhat. Female. Lores and front line of the forehead reddish brown ; upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with rul'ous; wing-coverts and quills dark brown, broadly edged with bright rufous ; tail brown, tinged with rufous and with the same distribution of white on it as in the male ; ear- coverts olive-brown, with pale shafts ; chin, throat, bivast, and sides of the body rufous-olive ; a large patch of