10. MICEOPUS. 65 



Key to the Species. 



a. Centre tail-featliers with a siibtermiual black 



band. 

 «'. Upper tail-coverts yellow. 



a". Mantle and breast olire-yeUow or yel- 

 lowish green. 

 a'". Ear-coverts and cheeks metalUc black, 



like the throat and crown melanocei^halus, p. 65. 



b'". Ear-coverts and cheeks dark olive- 

 green ; throat metallic black ; no cap ; 

 the head a little more dingy than the 



back and glossed with metallic pm-ple. fusciflavescens, p. 67. 

 6". Mantle and breast light bluish grey .... cinereiventris, p. 67. 

 b'. Upper tail-coverts light grey ; upper and 

 under surface grey ; head all round metallic 

 black chalcocephalus, p. 69. 



b. Centre tail-feathers grey, with no subterminal 



band ; upper tail-coverts grey ; no distinct 



cap ; hind head grey phceoceplialus, p. 68. 



c. Centre tail-feathers uniform blackish, like the 



rest of the body; a white shoulder-spot; 



axillaries white melanoJeucus, p. 69. 



1. Micropus melanocephalus. 



Black-headed Shrike, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. pt. i. p. 165, pi. vi. 



Lanius melanocephalus, Gm. Si/st. Hat. i. p. 309. 



Turdus melanocephalus, HufH. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 310. 



Turdus atriceps, Temm. PL Col. 147. 



Ixos atriceps, Temm. Tahl. Mcth. I'l. Col. p. 15. 



Brachvpoduis melanocephalus, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 576; id. 



Cat. B. Mm. As. >Soc. p. 211; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 248; Moore, P. Z. 8. 1854, p. 278; Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 201 ; Bh/th 8, Wald. B. Burm. p. 136 ; Armstr. S. F. 1876, 



p. 324; Ticeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 307; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 618; 



Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 318, 1879, p. 98 ; Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1879, 



p. 339; Salcad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 221. 

 Ixos metallicus, Eyton, Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 228. 

 Pycnonotus melanocephalus, 8tricM. P. Z. 8. 1846, p. 101 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 270, no. 3972. 

 Pycnonotus metallicus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 271, no. 3973. 

 Bracliypus melanocephalus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 2G4. 

 Prosecusa melanocepliala. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 110, 

 Ixus melaudcephalus, 8cld. Hundl. Dicrk. i. p. 272. 

 Brachypodius immaculatus, 8harpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 39, 1877, p. 14. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, rather brighter 

 towards the lower back ; the feathers of the rump with black bases, 

 producing a somewhat barred appearance ; upper tail- coverts bright 

 yellow : tail-feathers yeUow, brilliant yellow at the tips, with a 

 subterminal band of black, somewhat less distinct on the outer ones ; 

 least wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater series 

 brighter yellow, especially on the mai'gins of the latter : primarj-^ 

 coverts and c^uiUs black, the former with narrow yellowish edgiuga, 



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