. Birds. Birds. CYOENIS 13 n*. Second primary between the sixth and seventh or equal to seventh. c'. Wing 2-8; taU 2-2 C. hoOgsoni P, p. 14. dK Wing 2-3 or 2-4; tail 1-7 or 1-8. a^. Chim throat, and breast pale buff or sordid white. a'. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers suffused with blue. C. mperciUaris ?, p. 17. v. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers fulvous C. astigma $, p. 19. c'. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers bright ferruginous, C. melanoleuom 5, p. 18. i". Chin, throat, and breast orange-chestnut C. sappUra J, p. 20. 564. Cy
. Birds. Birds. CYOENIS 13 n*. Second primary between the sixth and seventh or equal to seventh. c'. Wing 2-8; taU 2-2 C. hoOgsoni P, p. 14. dK Wing 2-3 or 2-4; tail 1-7 or 1-8. a^. Chim throat, and breast pale buff or sordid white. a'. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers suffused with blue. C. mperciUaris ?, p. 17. v. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers fulvous C. astigma $, p. 19. c'. Upper tail-coverts and outer webs of tail-fea- thers bright ferruginous, C. melanoleuom 5, p. 18. i". Chin, throat, and breast orange-chestnut C. sappUra J, p. 20. 564. Cyomis cyaneus. The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher. Muscitrea cyanea, Hume, 8. F. v, p. 101 (1877) ; Hume ^ Bav. 8. F. vi, p. 207; Hume, Cat. no. 266 bis. Trichastoma leucoprootum, Tweedd. P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 366; Hume, 8. F. vii, p. 318. If,, Niltava leucoprocta {Tweedd.), Oates, B. B. i, p. 298. Pachycephala cyanea {Hume), Gadow, B. M. Cat. viii, p. 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 duU 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 rufous; 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 J ear-coverts olive-brown, with pale shafts ; chin, throat, breast, and sides of
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