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CAMrOPHAGID^. 



Adxilt male. General colour above grey, tho forehead whitish as 

 also the sides of the face, the ear-coverts washed with grey on the 

 upper margin ; entire under surface of body dull white, the sides of 

 the body grey, as also the thighs, which have whitish edgings ; 

 wing-coverts blackish, washed with grey, the greater white at tip 

 with a subterminal black bar ; quills blackish externally, shaded 

 wath grey, especially the secondaries, which have broad Avhite 

 edgings preceded by a black subterminal bar, all the quills with a 

 white subbasal bar of white extending obliquely across the wing, 

 and larger on the inner than on the outer web ; tail black, washed 

 with grey, all the feathers with oblicjue white tips, excepting on the 

 four centre ones. Total length 7 inches, culmen U-(55, wing 3'7, 

 tail 3'65, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being entirely grey above, 

 without any black on the head and nape, only the base of the fore- 

 head whitish. Total length 7'4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3*75, 

 tail 3-7, tarsus 0"55. 



Hah. South Amoorland and the mouths of the Ussuri river, 

 through China to the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. China [?]. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. (S ad. sk. Amoy, China, Oct. 4, R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



1859. 

 <■> f^- 6 2 ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill, 



[P.]. 

 e,f. [ 2 1 ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [C] 



^, A. [cJ], «. 2 ad.sk. Labuan. Governor Ussher [C.I. 



k. cJ ad. sk. Bintulu, W. Borneo. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



17. Pericrocotus cantonensis. 



Pericrocotus cantouensis, Sivinh.Ibis, 1861, p. 42, 1805, p. 107, 1870, 

 p. 244 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 284, 1871, p. 378 ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 335 ; Gould, B. Asia, part xxvi. ; Sharpe, Sir. F. 1876, 

 p. 211 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 177 ; David Sf Omtalet, Ois. Chine, 

 p. 107. 



Pericrocotus sordidus, Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 378 ; Grai/, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 335. 



Adult female (Canton, 1860, 11. Swinhoe ; type of species). 

 General colour above grey, the head like the back ; fore part of 

 crown white, the vertex somewhat obscured by brown edges to the 

 feathers : scapulars shaded with ashy brown ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ashy or rather clay-brown, contrasting with the back ; wing- 

 coverts dark brown, edged with lighter brown ; primary-coverts uni- 

 form dark brown ; quills dark brown, the innermost secondaries with 

 paler ashy brown margins tinged with yellow near the tip ; primaries 

 with an oblique mark of yellow, very broad on the inner web and 

 narrow on the outer one, tho secondaries yellow at tho base, forming 

 a conspicuous alar speculum ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with 

 yellow or yellowish white on all but the two centre feathers, these 

 yellow tips becoming much broader on the outer tail-feathers ; in 

 front of the eye a three-cornered spot of black ; round the eye a 



