. Birds. Birds. liyPOTHYMIS. 49 Key to the Species. a. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts -white H. azurea, p. 49. 6. Abdomen, veut, and under tail-coverts blue S. tytleri, p. 50. 601. Hypothymis azurea. The Indian Blach-naped Flycatcher. Muacicapa azurea, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 41 (1783). Myiagra ceerulea ( Vieill), Blyih, Cat. p. 204. Myiagra azurea (Bodd.), Horsf. §• M. Cat. i, p. 138; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 450; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 198. Hypothymis azurea {Bodd.), Anders. Yunnan Kvped., Aves, p. 655 ; Sume, Cat. no. 290 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. w, p. 274; Oates, B. B. i, p. 265; Barnes, Birds Bom.
. Birds. Birds. liyPOTHYMIS. 49 Key to the Species. a. Abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts -white H. azurea, p. 49. 6. Abdomen, veut, and under tail-coverts blue S. tytleri, p. 50. 601. Hypothymis azurea. The Indian Blach-naped Flycatcher. Muacicapa azurea, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 41 (1783). Myiagra ceerulea ( Vieill), Blyih, Cat. p. 204. Myiagra azurea (Bodd.), Horsf. §• M. Cat. i, p. 138; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 450; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 198. Hypothymis azurea {Bodd.), Anders. Yunnan Kvped., Aves, p. 655 ; Sume, Cat. no. 290 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. w, p. 274; Oates, B. B. i, p. 265; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 159 ; Oates in Humis N. <§r B. 2nd ed. ii, p. 27. Hypothymis ceylonensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 277 (1879); Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 408, pi, xviii. The Black-naped Blue Flycatcher, Jerd. ; Kala kat-katia, Fig. 20.—Bill of H. azurea. Coloration. Male. A patch on the nape, forehead, angle of the chin, and a crescentic bar across the fore neck black; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white, or faint bluish white; re- mainder of lower plumage azure-blue; wings and coverts dark brown edged with blue; tail brown, sufEused with blue on the median pair of feathers and the outer webs of the others ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. Female. Head above azure-blue; sides of the head, chin, and throat duller blue, the ear-coverts almost brown; breast ashy blue; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white tinged with grey; wings, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown; tail darker brown, the outer edges washed with blue. I have not been able to examine a nestling of this species. Iris dark brown; eyelids plumbeous, the edges blue; bill dark blue, the edges and tip black; mouth yellow; legs plumbeous; claws horn-colour. Length about 6"5 ; tail 3 ; wing 2*8 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from gape •75. S. ceylonensis, from Ceylon, is said to differ in the male wanting the black bar across the throat, but I am of opinion that this alleged difference does not rea
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