AVIS-IBIS

Birds of Indian Subcontinent

88. Ruticilla frontalis

88. BLUE-FRONTED REDSTART.
RUTICILLA FRONTALIS.
Ruticilla frontalis (Vigors), F.Z.S., 1831, p. 172 ; (Gould), Cent. B. Himal. M. pl. xxvi. fig. 1 (1832) ; Prjev. Mongol, i Strana Tangut, ii. pl, xx. fig. 9 (egg) ; Seebohm. Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 349 ; Oates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 91.
Tak-tirriri-pho. Lepch.
Male ad. (Sikhim). Crown, nape, and upper parts generally dark blue, the forehead and supercilium bright blue ; throat and upper breast dark blue ; tail chestnut-red, the central feathers and terminal portion of all the rest black ; upper and under tail-coverts and under parts chestnut ; under wing- coverts and axillaries chestnut with blue bases. Culmen 0.57, wing 3.55, tail 3.05, tarsus 0.92 inch. The female has the tail and upper tail-coverts as in the male, but rather duller, the upper parts generally dark fulvous brown, the throat and breast fulvous brown, and the rest of the under parts orange brown. In the winter the male has the blue feathers margined with brown.
Hab. The Himalayas from Gilgit and Kashmir to Assam ; the Khasi Hills ; North Cachar ; Manipur ; Tibet ; Kan-su and Western China. In summer it is found at an altitude of 14,000 or even higher, but in winter descends as low as 5,000 feet. But little is known of its habits, but it has been found breeding in Kan-su. The nest which was constructed of moss, bass, and the feathers of Crossoptilum auritum was placed on the ground under a rotten stump, and contained 4 eggs of a dirty white colour, covered with indistinct reddish-brown spots chiefly at the larger end which measured 0".73 by 0".58.

BookTitle: 
A Manual Of Palaearctic Birds
Reference: 
Dresser, Henry Eeles. A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 1. 1902.
Title in Book: 
88. Ruticilla frontalis
Book Author: 
H. E. Dresser
CatNo: 
88
Year: 
1902
Page No: 
58
Common name: 
Blue Fronted Redstart
M_ID: 
28343
M_CN: 
Blue-fronted Redstart
M_SN: 
Phoenicurus frontalis
Volume: 
Vol. 1
id: 
10064

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