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are scarcely O'o incli shorter than the central ones, and the penulti- 

 mate pair are only 0-2 shorter. Total length 8-12 inches, bill from 

 gape 0-85, expanse 13-0, wing 4-1, tail 3-55, tarsus 0-76." {Hume.) 



" Two old females, imfortunately not measured in the flesh, are 

 precisely similar, except that the xrings, which measure 3-8 and 3-95 

 respectively, want the slaty and white edgings and tippings, and also 

 want the grey shade on the taU, while the four central tail-feathers 

 have almost dropped their white tippings. In these two the exte- 

 rior lateral taU-feathers are 0"6 and 0"65 shorter than the central 

 ones." {Hume.) 



Hah. South of the Tenasscrim provinces. 



OIis. The diagnosis of the species is given by Mr. Hume as fol- 

 lows : — '• Intermediate in colour between V. melascMstus and V. 

 melanoptera vel avensis, but much smaller than either : wing in the 

 largest male 4-17 : outermost tail-feather only, at most, 0-75, and 

 generally only about 0"65 inch shorter than central tail-feathers." 



11. Campophaga poUoptera. (Plate II.) 



Adult. General colour above ashy grej-, rather darker on the head 

 and lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; least wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median and greater coverts rather paler grey ; 

 bastard wing and primary-coverts black, narrowly margined with 

 grey ; primaries black, narrowly edged with grey, wliitish towards 

 the tip and very broadly white on the iimer web ; secondaries black, 

 externally grey, inclining to white at the tips ; two centre taU-feathers 

 ashy grey, shading into black towards the tip, which is white ; re- 

 mainder of the tail-feathers black tipped with white, which tip 

 increases in extent towards the oixtermost, where it is very broad ; 

 sides of face like the crown, a little diisky in front of the eyes and 

 on the ear-coverts ; under surface of body light grey, darker on the 

 throat and paling towards the abdomen and vent ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light grey ; quUls 

 dusky brown below, the iimer webs white for more than half their 

 length. Total length 8-3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 4*15, tail 3-4, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female (?). Differs from the adult male in having hoary- 

 whitish edgings to the feathers of the xump and upper tail-coverts ; two 

 centre tail-feathers grey, with a subtcrminal black spot, the next on 

 each side black, tipped with white and grey for the greater part of 

 the outer web, the rest black broadly tipped with white ; lores 

 mottled with white edges ; ear-coverts grey, streaked with white ; 

 entire under surface of body dull white, barred across -^nth dusky 

 blackish cross lines ; the under tail-coverts whiter, with the cross bars 

 further apart. Total length 8-7 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 4-1, tail 

 .3-6, tarsus 075. 



Hah. Cochin China. 



«, b.[d] ad., c.[2] ad. sk. Cochin China. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



