flights from branch to branch. I t is very partial to some fruits in the forest, collecting in considerable
flocks in the loftiest trees; and -while some greedily pluck the berries from the top branches, others
remain in the underwood beneath and reap a harvest on those that fall. In spite of its fruit-eating
propensities, however, it. is highly insectivorous in d ie t; and I have seen it scratching in manure at
the edge of the forest-paths.”
Adult male. General colour above bluish slate-colour, the feathers with blackish centres and
slate-coloured margins; wing-coverts and quills black, with distinct edges of bluish slate-colour;
tail-feathers black, washed with slate-colour externally; head like the back; sides of face and
under surface of body also slate-coloured, the feathers being distinctly edged with this shade; under
wing-coverts and axillaries also light slaty-grey; “ bill orange-yellow; feet paler yellow; claws
yellowish homy; iris pale brown; eyelid orange-yellow” (W. V. Legge). Total length 9-2 inches,'
culmen 0'95, wing 4'5, tail 3-6, tarsus T25.
Adult female. Eather browner than the male, being of a brownish slate-colour below. Total
length 8'5 inches, culmen-0'95, wing 4-2, tail 3T, tarsus T25.
Young birds differ in the usual way, being mottled with reddish-brown and having shaft-streaks
of buff, as well as blackish edges to the feathers.
The male bird despribed is in the Seebohm Collection. I t was obtained by Colonel Legge in
September 1875, and is apparently the specimen figured by Mr. Seebohm in the Plate. The female
described is one of the typical specimens sent by llr. Kelaart to the British Museum.
[E. B. S.]