Pale Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Pale Blue Flycatcher Cyornis unicolor is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family that breeds in the Oriental Region, from the Himalayas in north-west India through south-east China, Java and Borneo. Blyth described it in 1843. It is a pale blue bird and is superficially like the verditer flycatcher, but it is paler blue and has greyish underparts from throat to vent, together with a broken black eye-patch. It occurs in moist lowland forest and moist montane forest.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Himalayas from nw India through se China, Java and Borneo