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16. COPSYCHUS. rv 



Type. _ 



Copsyclius, Wagler, Si/st. Av., note to Art. Gracula (1827) , . C. saularis. 



Daliila, Ilodgs. Asiat. Eesearch. xix. p. J 86 (1836) 0. saularis. 



Grvllivora, Sicains. Classif. B. ii. p. 238 ( 1837) C. saularis, 



Polypeira, Ilodi/s. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 28 (1841, nom. emchd. 

 pro Dahlia). 



Range. Sej'chelles Archipelago ; India and Ceylon, extending 

 throughout the Burmese countries and Southern China, as well as 

 over the "whole Indo-Malayau subregion. 



Key to the Species. 

 Males, 



a. Tail-feathers all black. 



«'. Smaller : belly white mindanensis, p. 60. 



h' . Larger : belly glossy black like the back . . seychellaruni, p. 61. 



b. Outer tail-feathers white saularis, p. 61. 



c' . Belly white. 



a". Under wing-coverts white : «. saidaris, p. 61. 

 b". Under wing-coverts white, with broad 



black bases /3. musicvs, p. 63. 



d'. Belly black y. amoenus, p. 63. 



Females. 



a. Tail-feathers black 7nindanensis, p. 60. 



b. Outer tail-feathers white ] *««^"^'*^' P- ^^' 



«'. BeUy white; throat grey. _ _ ' and races. 



a". Under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 



sides faintly fulvesceut : a. saularis, p. 62. 

 b". Under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 



blackish edged with white : ^. musicus, p. 63. 

 c". Under wing-coverts fulvous brown like 



flanks, and edged with white : andavianensis, p. 62. 

 b'. BeUy ash-grey hke the throat : amccmts, p. 63. 



1. Copsychus mindanensis. 



Le Merle de Mindanao, Daiihent. PI. Enl. 627. fig. 1 ; Montb. H. N. 

 Ois. iii. p. 387. 



Turdus mindanensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 283 {ex Month.'). 



Copsychus m\aAw[ienB\s, Stmid. Krit. Fra^nst., Levaill.'^. 36; v. Martens, 

 J.f. O. 18G6, p. 10; Walden if Layard, Ihis, 1872, p. 102 ; Walden, 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 194, pi. xxxiii. fig. 1 (1875) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, new ser., Zool. i. p. 352 (1877) ; Ttveedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 696, 

 761, 828, 1878, pp. 285, 342, 949, 1879, p. 72 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 656 (1881). 



Adult. General colour glossy purplish black, as well as the entire 

 throat and breast ; rest of under surface of body, and under tail- 

 coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts purplish black ; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts purplish black, the outermost of the latter nar- 

 rowly edged with purple ; the rest of the wing-coverts pure white, 

 forming a large patch on the wing ; quills black, slightly glossed 

 with purple, two of the inner secondaries externally white, forming 

 a longitudinal streak down the wing ; tail entirely black ; bill, legs, 



