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  • In addition to the rufous-bellied niltava, two other niltavas occur in the Eastern Himalayas.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • The rufous-bellied niltava (_Niltava sundara_) or fairy blue-chat, as Jerdon calls it, is the kind of bird one would expect to find in fairyland.

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

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  • A genus of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It consists of the Fujian, Large, Small, Rufous-Vented, Rufous-Bellied, and Vivid Niltavas.

    June 25, 2008