7. CAMPOPHAGA. 65 



6. Campophaga lugubris. 



Lanius silens, TickeU, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 573 (1833, tiec Shaw). 



Ceblepyi'is lugubris, Sundev. Lund Siilkk. Tidskr. vol. i. ; id. Ann. 

 N. H. xviii. p. 109. 



Volvocivoia melaschistus, Hodgs. Ind. Review, i. p. 328; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. i. p. 415; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 399; Hume, Str. F. 1875, 

 p. 93, 1877, p. 205. 



Graucalus maculosus, 3fCh'll. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 159, 



Carapephaga timbriata (nee Temm.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 30G; 

 id. Cat. B. 3Ius. A. S. B. p. 191. ' 



Campephaga lugubris, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 283. 



Volvocivora Umbriata {nee Temm.) , Bp. Cviisp. i. p. 3-56. 



Caiupephaga melaschistus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5105. 



Volvocivora lugubris, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 61 ; Ilartl. J. f. O. 1865, 

 p. 161 ; Sicinhoc, Ibis, 1870, p. 243. 



Volvocivora melauura, Hartl. J.f. O. 1805, p. 162 (type examined). 

 Adult male. General colour above and below dark iron-grey ^vith 

 a slaty gloss, the rump and upper tail-coverts slightly paler slate- 

 colour, the under surface also rather paler towards the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; wings black, the lesser coverts iron-grey 

 like the back, the remainder of the coverts and the quills glossed 

 with steel-green, especially on the edges of the feathers ; tail black, 

 glossed with steel-green, the two centre feathers with a narrow grey 

 tip, all the others tipped with a white spot, which increases in size 

 towards the outermost feather, where it has a subtermiual sliade of 

 ashy grey ; feathers in front of the eye, cheeks, region of the eye, 

 and ear-coverts black, darker than the head ; under wing-coverts 

 like the breast, or dull brown edged with iron-grey ; quills blackish 

 below, dull brown along the edge of the inner web : " bill and legs 

 black ; iris hazel-brown " (Jenlon). Total length 9'3 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 4-7, tail 4-4, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being lighter and in having 

 the feathers in front of the ej'e and sides of face dusky blackish, 

 not of such a deep black as in the male. Total length 9"5 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 4-65, tail 4*4, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Browner than the adult, and mottled all over with tips 

 of whity buff to the feathers, before which light tip runs a sub- 

 terminal blackish bar ; the wing-coverts tipped in the same way, 

 the greater coverts mottled with rnfous marblings near their tips ; 

 quills edged and tipped with white ; tail-feathers broadly tipped 

 with white, these white tips often pencilled with brown ; car-coverts 

 and feathers in front of the eye dusky blackish, spotted and streaked 

 with white ; under surface of body dull grcjish white, barred across 

 with dusky blackish, the abdomen and under tail-coverts much 

 whiter, the bars more wavy and wider apart ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky grey, white at tip, barred with black lines. 

 Hab. Indian peninsula. 



a-c. Ad., d, e. .luv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/, f,. Tull. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad., i. Jun. sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. [C'.l. 



k. Imm. sk. Darjiling. Capt. C. H. 'J'. Marshall [P.]. 



