. Birds. Birds. 40 MUSCICAPIDiE. Key to the Species. a. Winf? 4 inches or longer N. grandis, p. 40. b. Wing not mucli exceeding 3 inches or less. a!. Under wing-coverts and axillariea chest- nut or buff N. sundara, p. 41. h. Under win^-coverts and axillaries white or ashy white N. macgrigorits, p. 42. 593. Niltava grandis. TJie Large Niltava. Chaitaris grandis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 189 (1842). Niltava grandis {Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 174; JSorsf. Sr M. Cat. i, p. 288 ; Jerd. B. 1. i, p. 476; Sume, N. ^ E. p. 215 ; Hume 8; Dav. S. F. vi, p. 232; Shar-pe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 464 ; Hume, Cat. n
. Birds. Birds. 40 MUSCICAPIDiE. Key to the Species. a. Winf? 4 inches or longer N. grandis, p. 40. b. Wing not mucli exceeding 3 inches or less. a!. Under wing-coverts and axillariea chest- nut or buff N. sundara, p. 41. h. Under win^-coverts and axillaries white or ashy white N. macgrigorits, p. 42. 593. Niltava grandis. TJie Large Niltava. Chaitaris grandis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 189 (1842). Niltava grandis {Blyth), Blyth, Cat. p. 174; JSorsf. Sr M. Cat. i, p. 288 ; Jerd. B. 1. i, p. 476; Sume, N. ^ E. p. 215 ; Hume 8; Dav. S. F. vi, p. 232; Shar-pe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 464 ; Hume, Cat. no. 316; id. S. F. xi, p. 113 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 297 ; id. in Hume's iV^. (^.B. 2nded. ii, p. 18. The Large Faiiy Blue-Chat, Jerd.; Margong, Fig. 17.—Bill of N. grandis. Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, i-ump, upper tail-coverts, lesser and median wing-coverts, and a large patch on each side of tlie neck brilliant cobalt-blue; back and scapulars purplish blue; middle tail-feathers purplish blue, the others brown on the inner web and blue on the outer; greater coverts and quills black, narrowly edged with blue; feathers at base of upper mandible, lores, sides of the head, chin, throat, and upper breast black; lower breast dull blue; abdomen bluish ashy, the under tail-coverts fringed with whitish. Female. Forehead, lores, round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks fulvous, with pale shafts ; crown and nape ashy brown ; a patch on each side of the neck bright blue; back and rump fulvous-brown ; tail and wings dark brown, with the outer webs suffused with deep rufous ; the whole lower plumage rich olive-brown, the feathers of the throat and breast with whitish shafts ; the middle of (he chin and throat clear bufE, and of the abdomen ashy; under wing-coverts and axillarjes buff. The young nestling is dark brown, streaked with fulvous ; wings and tail as in the female. Iris deep brown; in the male the bill is black, the legs and feet black or very dark plumbeous ; in the fe
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