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and claws black; iris chocolate (A. Everett). Total length 7-6 

 inches, cnlmen 0-75, wing 3"7, tail 3' 6, tarsus 1*1. 



Female. Dull grej'ish above, with a slight purplish-blue gloss, the 

 wings as in the male ; throat and breast clear grey ; rest of under 

 surface of body white, the flanks and under tail-coverts brownish 

 fulvous ; tail entirely black. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0'7, 

 wing 3-3, tail 3'55, tarsus 1. 



Hob. Philippine archipelago. 



a. $ ad.sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Philippine Islands (Ckmhw//). Eyton Collection. 



c. $ ad. sk. Monte Alban, Luzon, March Alfred Everett, Esq. [C] 



1877. 



d. Ad. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Copsychus seychellarum. 



Copsychus seychellarum, A. Newton, Ibis, 1865, p. 332, pi. 8 ; E. 

 Neivton, Ibis, 1867, pp. 337,352; Gray, Hand-/. B. i. p. 266, 

 n. 3898 (1869) ; Sluuye, Cat. Afr. B. p. 28 (1871) ; Hartl. Vbg. 

 Madag. p. 132 (1877). 



Adult male. Everywhere glossy purplish black, with a large white 

 patch on the wing, embracing the least, median, and greater coverts, 

 the innermost of the latter being blackish on inner web ; bill and 

 feet black. Total length 10*5 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-9, tail ■1-7, 

 tarsus 1-55. 



Hah. Seychelles : Praslin, Ladigue, Marianne, Aride, He aux 

 Fregates. 

 a. c? ad. sk. Seychelles. Edward Newton, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Copsychus saularis. 



Dial Bird, Albin, Birds, iii. pi. 17 (1740). 



Little Indian Pye, Edivards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iv. pi. 181 (1751). 



Gracula saularis, Linn Sijst. Nat. i. p. 165 (1766). 



Le Cadrau, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 50, pi. 109 (1800) ; Sundev. 

 Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 36 (1857). 



Turdus amcenus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 147 (1820). 



Lanius niusicus, liaffl. t. c. p. 307 (1820). 



CopsTchus saularis, Waqler, Syst. Av., note to genus Gracula (1827) ; 

 Blyth,J.A.S.Ben().'-s:i. p. 889 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 177 

 (1846) ; Bbjth, Cat. B. Mtis. As. Soc. p. 16(5 (1819) ; Bp. Consp. 



Ibis, 1863, p. 33 ; Schomb. Ibis, 1864, p. 62 ; B/yth, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 220, & 1867, pp. 1 1 , 304 ; Beavan, t. c. pp. 327, 443 ; Goidd, B. Asia, 

 part xviii. (1868); Stoliczka, J. A. 8. Beng. xxxvii. p. 40 (1868) ; 

 King, t. c. p. 215 , Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 308 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. 

 p. 265, no. 3884 (1869) ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 52 ; Blanf. J. A. S. 



P- . - - - . 



BalJ, t. c. p. 73 ; Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 307 ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, 

 p. 379 ; Hume, Nests «§• Fggs Ind. B. p. 303 (1874) ; id. Sir. F. 



