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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.
564. Cyornis cyaneus. The White-tailed Blue Flycatcher.
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.
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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