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at 15 cm long. The adult male has blue upperparts and rufous underparts. A bright white supercilium contrasts with a black mask that continues down the neck. The lower belly and undertail are also whitish. The female is olive brown above and buff below with a light eye-ring and rufescent rump.
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Nilgiris suggesting either differences in the timing of migration of males and females or variation in wintering areas. At
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328:study published in 2010 found that
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