13. HEMIPU3. 305 



13. HEMIPUS. 



Type. 



Hemipus, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 184-5, p. .S2 H. capitalis. 



Myiolestes, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 67 (1850) .... H. obscm-us. 

 Cabanisia, Bp. C. H. xxxviii. p. 536 (1854) H. obscuxus. 



Bill and foot of Hemipus obscurus. 



Rmuje. India and Ceylon ; Bnrmah ; Malayan peninsula and 

 islands of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Without any longitudinal white bar down the wing ; 

 tail black, not tipped with white, the outer feather 

 naiTowly margined with white along- the outer web. obscunis, p. 30o. 

 h. With a longitudinal bar down the wing cau.sed bv 

 the white edgings to the iuuer secondaries ; tail 

 black, the outer feathers broadly tipped with white. 

 a'. White tips to the outer tail-feathers very large, 



occupying the terminal half of the feather cajntnlis, p. 306. 



h'. White tips to the outer tail-feathers very small, 



occupying not more than one fifth of the feather, picatus, p. 307. 



1. Hemipus obscurus. 



Muscicapa obscura, Ilor^f. Tr. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 146 ; Grai/, Gen. 



B. i. p. L'C3. 

 Lanius no. ll^ Reffl- Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 308. 

 Obsciu-e Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 265. 

 Muscicapa iiiruudinacea, Temm. PL Col. 110: Horsf. Zool. Researches 



in .Tuva, pi. .30. 

 Ilemipu.s obscurus, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 305 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. <V. B. p. 154 ; Horsf. lV Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 136; 



Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 413 j Blt/ih ^- Walden, B. Burm. p. 122; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 20. 

 Tephrodornis obscura, Gray, Gen. B. App. p. 13; Pek. Reis. Mvara, 



Voc/. pp. 83, 161. 

 Tephrodornis hiruudinaceus, Swains. An. in Menaq. p. 284 ; Bn. 



Consp. i. p. 357 ; Bernst. J. f. O. 1859, p. 244 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863. 



p. 217. ' 



Myiolestes obscurus, Cah. Mm. Hein. i. p. G7. 

 Cabanisia liirundinacea, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 536. 



Adult male. Above glossy greenish black, inclining to steel-green 

 on the head and neck ; plumes of lower back black, broadly tipped 

 with pure white where they adjoin the rump, which is pure white : 



