318 I'Riojjoriii.i:. 



Lophocitta ardesiaca, Cah. Mus. Hi in. Th. i. p. 219; Bp. Consp. Av. 



i. p. 374. 

 Platvlophiis ardesiacus, Cah. J. f. O. 18G6, p. 309 ; (rrai/, ILnid-l. 



B. ii. p. 2. 

 Platvlophus malaccensis, Cah. J. f. O. 1800. p. 310 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 2. 



Adult male. General colour dark slaty grey, the back and wings 

 distinctly washed with olive-brown ; head and neck all round black, 

 including the long crest-feathers ; a small spot of feathers above and 

 below the hinder part of the eye white ; a longitudinal patch down 

 the sides of the neck also white, the feathers of the neck immedi- 

 ately behind the white patch also black ; throat black ; the rest of 

 the under surface slaty grey, as also the under wing-coverts, some 

 of the latter being margined with white ; lower surface of quills 

 ashy brown, much paler near the base of the inner webs, which are 

 also narrowly edged with rufous towards the tips; biU and legs 

 black. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1*1.5, wing 5"6, tail 4'95, 

 tarsus 1"3. 



Young. Much paler and browner than the adult, the forehead 

 greyish ; lores whitish ; the white feathers behind the eye and on 

 the neck-patch narrowly margined with blackish ; wings reddish 

 brown, the coverts tipped with fulvous, the secondaries also lighter- 

 tipiped ; under surface of body slaty grey, all the feathers broadly 

 barred and tipped with white ; the under tail-coverts more reddish 

 brown, and having obsolete white tips. N.B. The disappearance of 

 the whitish margins to the breast-feathers, and of the fulvous tips 

 to the wing-feathers, seems to be effected gradually without a 

 moult. 



Hah. Malayan peninsula. 



3. Platylophus coronatub. 



Lanius coronatus, Baffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 30G. 



Vanga coronata, Viqors, Mem. Baffl. p. 658. 



Lophocitta histriomca, Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 79 (ex Miill. MS. in Mm. 



Lugd.) ; id. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 374. 

 Lophocitta coronata, Cah. Mm. Hein. i. p. 219. 

 Garrulus histrionicus, Scld. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 327. 

 jGarrulus rufulus, Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 327 (e.r Temm. MS. in 



3Ius. Ztic/d.) ; id. 3Ius. P.-B. Coraces, p. 66. 

 Platylophus coronatus, Cab. J. f. O. 1866, p. 309 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 2 ; Salvad. Ucc. Bm-n. p. 280 ; Sharpe, P. Z. ^.'l875, p. 107. 



Adult. General colour above rufous brown, the head also of this 

 colour, but rather lighter than the back ; two long feathers in the 

 centre of the crest elongated and spatulate, black ; side of the face 



