Key to the Species.
a. Sides of body orange- chestnut, contrasting with remainder of lower plumage I. rufilata, p. 106. b. Sides of body of same colour as remainder of lower plumage. a'. A white supercilium /. indica, p. 107. b'. No white supercilium /. hijperythra, p. 108. 654. lanthia rufilata. The Red-flanked Bush-Robin. Nemura rufilatus, Hodgs. P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 27 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 199; Hume, N. $ E. p. 324 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 198. lauthia rufilata (Hodc/s.), Blyth, Cat. p. 170 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 52; Brooks, J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 77 j id. S. F. iii, p. 240 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 68. lanthia cyauura (Pall.}, apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 146 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 44.
Nemura cyauura (Pa//.), apud Hume, Cat. no. 508 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 304 ; Bidihdph, Ibis, 1881, p. 64. Tarsi ger rutilatus (Hodys.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 2-56 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 446.
The White-breasted Slue Wood-Chat, Jerd. ; Mangzhil-pho, Lepch,
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Fig. 31. Head of I. rufilata.
Coloration. Male. Forehead and a broad eyebrow, rump, upper tail-coverts, and the median wing-coverts bright ultramarine-blue ; ear-coverts, lores, and round the eye black ; upper plumage, edges of wing-coverts and quills, sides of the head, throat, and neck extending down to the sides of the breast deep purplish blue ; tail black, the outer webs suffused with deep blue ; chin, throat, middle of breast, and remaining lower plumage white, sallied with ashy brown on the breast ; a very large and conspicuous patch of orange-chestnut on each side of the body ; under wing-coverts and axillnries white.
Males from Sikhim are very bright ; those from other parts have the upper plumage a greenish blue.
Female. Upper plumage olive-brown, the coverts and wings edged with rufous ; rump greenish blue ; upper tail-coverts deep blue ; tail dark brown, the outer webs suffused with deep blue ; chin and throat narrowly white ; sides of the head and neck and the whole breast ochraceous ; a large patch of orange-chestnut on each side of the body ; remainder of the sides ochraceous ; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellowish buff.
