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Siphia unicolor (Bl.), Sharpe, Cat,. B. .If. iv, p. -111. Coloration. Male, Forehead, a broad eyebrow, and the lesser wing-coverts ultramarine-blue ; lores black, tipped with blue ; sides of the head and neck and the whole upper plumage, with the exposed parts of the closed wing, light blue ; upper tail-coverts and the margins of the tail-feathers deep blue ; lower plumage pale dull blue, becoming albescent on the abdomen ; the under tail-coverts broadly fringed with white ; axillaries pale fulvous.

Female. Lores and a ring round the eye pale rufescent ; the whole upper plumage olive-brown tinged with rufous; the upper tail-coverts and the margins of the wings, together with the whole tail, ferruginous ; the whole lower plumage earthy brown, tinged with ochraceous on the sides of the body ; abdomen albescent ; axillaries pale fulvous.

The young nestling is brown, densely spotted and mottled with bright fulvous.

In the male the legs and feet are dull pale purple ; bill black ; iris brown. In the female the legs and feet are greyish brown ; upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale bluish horny ; iris brown (Hume).

Length about 6%5 ; tail 2'8 ; wing 3'3 ; tarsus *65 ; bill from gape -75.

Distribution. The Himalayas from Sikhim to the Daphla hills in Assam; the Khasi hills; the Naga hills; Manipur; Karen nee ; probably Arrakan.

C. cyanopolius, Blyth, from the Malay peninsula and islands, is a much brighter bird than C. unicolor, and may be kept distinct.

Habits, &c. Mandelli found the nest of this bird in Sikhim in August, a cup of moss and fern-roots placed in a depression in the trunk of a tree about 10 feet from the ground. 575. Cyornis rubeculoides. The Blue-throated Flycatcher.

Phoenicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35 ; Gould, Cent. pi. 25, fig. 1.

Cyornis rubeculoides (Via.), Blyth, Cat. p. 173 ; Ilorxf. 8f M. Cat. i, p^289; Jerd. S. L i, p. 4<;1'.': Hume, Cat. no. 304 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 164 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 107 ; Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, ]>. ">.

Siphia rubeculoides (Via.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 44/3 ; Leaue, Birds Ceyl. p. 424 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 287.

Cyornis dialilaema, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 387 (1889).

The Blur-//<rn<i/rJ Jtrdbmtxt, Jerd.; Chatki. Beng. Manzhil-phn, Lepch.

Coloration. Mule. Forehead and a streak over the eye glis-