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with ashy hrown, the wing-coverts narrowly edged with grey, the 

 primaries margined with white, the secondaries externally shaded 

 with grey ; tail-feathers as in the male, but the centre ones grey for 

 two thirds of their length, black at the ends ; under surface of body 

 dark grey, with a shade of rusty brown surrounding the breast and 

 flanks ; quills as in the male below, but the white patch on the 

 inner webs larger. Total length 7'7 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 4-5, 

 tail 3-9, tarsus 0*75. (Mus. li. Sivinlwe.) 



Obs. This is a small dark-coloiured race of O. lucjuhris, and is 

 apparently distinct from either C. intermedia or C. neglecta of Mr. 

 Hume, of which I am vmable to judge personally, as I have never 

 seen a specimen of either of them. 



Hab. Island of Hainan. 



9. Cainpophaga melanoptera. 



Ceblepyris melanoptera *, Riipp. Mus. Senckotb. iii. p. 25, Taf. ii. 



fig. 1 (descr. orig.). 

 Campephaga tricolor, Grai/, Gen. B. i, p. 283 (nee Swains.). 

 Campephaga melanoptera, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 307 ; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 191. 

 CampephaL'-a aveusis, BIyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 327; Gray, 



HamJ-l. ^B. i. p. 338, no. ul07. 

 Volvocivora melanoptera, Bp. Consp. Av, i. p. 356; Hartl. J.f. O. 



18(J5, p. 1G2 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 468. 

 Volvocivora avensis, 'Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 474, 1875, p. 93, 1877, 



p. 205 ; Bli/th ^- Walden, B. Burm. p. 123 ; Hiime ^- Davison, 



Str. F. 1878, p. 209. 

 Volvocivora melaschistus (tiec ITodffs.), Swinh. P. Z. S, 1863, p. 282, 



et 1871, p. 378: David |- Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 103. 



Adult [male]. General colour above light bluish grey, paler on 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wings black, with a 

 steel-green gloss, the least wing-coverts like the back, the rest of 

 the coverts and the inner secondaries with obsolete greyish edges to 

 the feathers, the primaries also with remains of grey margins ; tail- 

 feathers black, with a steel-green gloss, all of them tipped with 

 white, the two centre feathers edged with grey more narrowly, 

 the others broadlj', the white tip increasing in extent towards the 

 outermost ; the feathers in front of and round the ej'e, ear-coverts, 

 and cheeks rather dusky ; under surface of body bluish grey like the 

 back, paling on the abdomen, the thighs dark slaty, the under taU- 

 coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the 

 breast ; quills dusky brown below, the inner webs edged with 

 lighter brown. Total length 7*7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-5, tail 

 4-0, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult \_fenude'\. General colour above cindery grey, becoming 

 conspicuously lighter on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 



* Dr. Uartlaub, in liis ' Monograph,' refers this species of Riippell's to C. 

 lugubris ; but this it cannot be, as the under tail-eoTcrts are white {ventre et 

 crisso alhis). It cau scarcely be any species but C. avensis, of Bljth, over whose 

 name EiippeH'e takes precedence. 



