68 CAMPOPHAGID^. 



which are decidedly ashy grey ; least wing-coverts like the back, 

 remainder of the wing-coverts and quills black glossed with steel- 

 green and narrowly edged with grey ; centre tail-feathers grey, 

 gradually shading off into greenish black towards the ends of the 

 feathers, which are narrowly edged with ashy grey at the tips ; re- 

 mainder of the tail-feathers black, glossed with steel-gi'een and tipped 

 with white, becoming broader on the outer ones ; lores and feathers 

 in front of the eye hoary grey ; ear-coverts grey, with white shaft- 

 lines ; remainder of under surface light gxey, becoming more of a 

 fulvous ashy colour towards the abdomen, the under tail-coverts 

 creamy white ; thighs ashy grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ashy below ; quills ash-coloured underneath, with a large spot of 

 white on the inner webs of the middle primaries. Total length 9-3 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4*5, tail 4-1, tarsus 0"So. 



06s. I was inclined to consider the bird here described as a female 

 to belong really to another species, on account of the white patch on the 

 primaries ; but I find that Mr. Hume notices it in the female C. mela- 

 no2)tera. An examination of Mr. Swinhoe's specimens from Ningpo, 

 Foochow, and Canton shows that the birds determined by him to 

 be Volvocivora ntelaschistus are really referable to C melanoptera. 



Hub. Burmah and Pegu ; China. 



a. [$] ad. sk. Burmah. Capt. Stackhouse Pin^\^ll [P.]. 



b. [cJ] ad. sk. Basseiu, Pegu. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



10. Campophaga neglecta. 



Volvocivora neglecta, Hume, Stray F. 1877, p. 203 ; id. i^- Davison, 

 S. F. 1878, p. 210. 



Adult nude. " Lores blackish dusky ; the cheeks and ear-coverts 

 are blackish slaty ; the entii'e upper surface of the bird, including 

 scapulars and lesser wing-coverts, the chin, throat, upper breast, and 

 sides of the neck are of a beautiful uniform blue-grey, paler than in 

 the palest female V. melascldstus, but darker than the male V. aven- 

 sis. The colour is slightly darker on the crown, where, as in other 

 species, there is a faint indication of darker striations, and it is 

 slightly paler on the rump and the upper tail-coverts ; the ear- 

 coverts are duskier, but scarcely darker than crown and throat ; 

 the lower breast and abdomen and the wing-lining are the same 

 colour as the rump, becoming paler towards the vent, which, with 

 the lower tail-coverts, are pure white ; the wings, except the lesser 

 wing-coverts, are black, with a distinct greenish lustre ; the median 

 and greater coverts, secondaries, and tertiaries are edged with the 

 colour of the back ; the primaries, except the first four or five, are 

 narrowly margined and conspicuously, though narrov.ly, tipped with 

 white ; the tail is black, the central tail-feathers gi'ey for nearly 

 half their length, margined with paler grey throughout and tipped 

 with nearly pure white ; the whole of the lateral tail-feathers are 

 broadly tipped with pure white, the external ones most broadly so 

 to the extent of about half an inch ; the exterior lateral tail-feathers 



