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  Name White-bellied Blue Flycatcher
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Aves
  Ordo Passeriformes
  Familia Muscicapidae
  Genus '' Cyornis ''
  Species '''''C pallipes'''''
  Binomial ''Cyornis pallipes''
  Binomial Authority ( Jerdon , 1840)


The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, ''Cyornis pallipes'', is a small Passerine Bird in the Flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

This is an insectivorous species which breeds in the Western Ghats of southwest India .

The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher breeds in forest undergrowth and ravines. It nests on a rock ledge and lays four eggs.

The White-bellied Blue Flycatcher is 15cm long. It is an upright long-tailed flycatcher. The male has bright blue upperparts, head and breast, and the rest of the underparts are white.

Females are completely different, with brown upperparts, a grey head and red breast. The rest of their underparts are white.

Juvenile birds have brown upperparts, scaly on the head and breast, with just the belly being whitish.


REFERENCE

  • ''Birds of India'' by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6