96 CAMPOPHAGID^. 



19. Pericrocotus albifrons. 



Pericrocotus albifrons, Jerdoyi, Ibis, 1862, p. 96 : Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 335; Blanford, Ibis, 1872, p. 468; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 96; 

 Sharpe, Str.' F. 1876, p. 212; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 178; id. ^ 

 Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 212. 



Adult male. Above glossy blue-black, the rump orange-vermilion 

 where the white bases do not show through ; upper tail-feathers 

 again blue-black ; tail black, ihe outer webs of the middle feathers 

 edged with white, all the other feathers tipped with white, increasing 

 in extent towards the outer feathers, the white predominating on 

 the outer ones ; wings black, the edge of the wing white, the outer- 

 most of the primary-coverts also edged with white ; greater coverts 

 black, edged with white, the centre ones entirely white ; quUls 

 blackish, more ashy brown at tip, the innermost secondaries white 

 all round, with an irregular blackish centre ; forehead, a broad eye- 

 brow, and sides of the face and neck pure white ; through the eye 

 to the ear-coverts a line of bluish-black feathers ; entire under surface 

 of body pm-e white, the chest ]3ale orange-vermilion, thighs blackish 

 externally ; under wing-coverts white ; bill and legs black, claws 

 dark horny ; eyelids grey ; iris dark brown. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-55, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Above ashy brown ; the forehead, cheeks, and 

 undcrparts white ; wing as in the male, bvit brown instead of black ; 

 middle tail-feathers blackish, the rest terminally white, this increasing 

 in extent towards the outer feathers ; rump white with a slight tinge 

 of vermilion here and there. Total length 6 inches, wing 2-6, tail 

 3-3, tarsus 0-6. 



Hah. Independent Burmah and Upper Pegu. 



a, b. (^ 2 ad. sk. Upper Burmah. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



(Types of species. ) 



9. LALAGE*. „ 



Type. 



Lalage, Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 973 L. terat. 



Erucivora, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. Birds, p. 453 



(1831) L. terat. 



* Boie, in naming this genus in 1826, gave no description, but indicated the 

 type as Turdns orientalis, Gm., which has been recognized as such by all sub- 

 sequent ornithologists. In 1858 (that is to say, thirty-two years later) he states 

 (J. f. O. 1858, p. 359) that this is all a mistake, and that he meant Turdus 

 mindanensis to be the type of Lalage, having confounded the two species together. 

 Boie must be held to his original type, as the name of Lalage is in common use 

 everywhere, and its being transferred to Copsychus would lead to irretrievable 

 confusion: no one but tlie proposer is answerable for the original blunder, 

 which could not be suspected by any subsequent writers. 



The following species have been placed in the genus Lalage: — 



1. Lalage uropygialis, Bp. C. R. xsxviii. p. 541. 



"Major; superciliis nullis; subtiis et late in uropygio albo-rufa." 



Hab. . 



Perhaps Symmorphus leucopygiits. 



