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p h c e n i c u r a f r o n t a l i s .
P hcen. fu s c o - a t r a ; abdomine , crisso;
i J r o n i e la z id in o splendente.
Longitudo corporis, 5f unc.
u ro p yg io , re c tricum q u e ap ic ib u s, d u a rum med ia rum
T „ n g e „ „ s / > / , « luckcles a gre a t portio.. of ti.e most beantifal birds eomposiag the family o f Sykiada,-
among wlneh the present spee.es, P .f io n ta b , stands pre-eminent In eleganee as well as rarity, no s 7 im e ,;
The top o f the head the baek and breast, arc hlaek with a tinge of laznline bine, which colonr prevails on
he forehead and strctehes above the eyes ; the wings are brown ; the rnmp and nnder parts b r i f t t rnfons ■
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PHCENICURA LEUCOCEPHALA.
P h a n , corpore a p ic e q u e c a u d a e a tn s ; ahdomine, crisso, u ro p yg io , oaudaqnc r n f s ; ca p ite su p ra albo.
S t a tu r a P hc en. rubecidce.
Tiie slhiatlons to which this species generally resorts are said to be the sides o f ravines and the vlcinitv of
moniitmn-streains, where ,t flits from stone to stone, or from crevice to ereviec, in search o f such insects as
arc peculiar to those localities, and which constitute its chief subsistence.
From the numerous c.vamples which the collection afforded, it m,ay he eonclndcd tl.at it is by no means an
uncommon bird ... that portion of the Himalaya wMeh it inl.ahits ; and it m a , be added, that the se,xes present
little or no variety m their plumage. prcbLnt
The top of the head and the occiput are white ; the whole of the upper surface and breast black • the
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Both these species are figured of the natural size.