9. LALASE. 87 



Oxynotus, Swains, torn. cit. p. 483 (1831) L. rufiventer. 



Acanthinotiis, Swains, torn. cit. p. 483 (1831) .... L. rufiventer. 



Schetba, Lesson, Ti-aite, p. 374 (1831) L. rufiventer. 



Pseudolalage, Ulyth, J. A. S. B. xxx. p. 97 (1862) . L. melanoleuca. 



Leg of Lalage pacifica. 



From the islands of Mauritius and Reunion, through the peninsula 

 of India and Ceylon, to the Malayan peninsula and entire Malayan 

 archipelago ; throughout the Moluccas, Australia, and Oceania. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Under tail-coverts vehite. 



a'. Throat slaty black sykesi, p. 89. 



b'. Throat pure vrhite, plain meJanothorax, p. 91. 



«". Under surface pure white, without a 

 pectoral band. 

 «'". Upper surface particoloured, the rump 

 lighter than the head ; scapulars uni- 

 form with the back, 

 a*. Back glossy greenish blaek. 

 a^ With no white eyebrow, 

 a". With the rump grey. 



a'. Least and median wing- 

 coverts greenish black like 



the mantle melanoleuca, p. 91. 



f. Least and median wing- 

 coverts white, contrasting 



with the mantle tricolor, p. 92. 



b\ With the rump white; least 

 wing-coverts greenish black 



like the back atrovirens, p. 93. 



i'. With a distinct eyebrow. 



c°. Eyebrow narrow; least wing- 

 coverts white Uke the median 



2. Lalage cnALCOCEPiiALA ( Temm.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5112. 

 Hab. Java. 



Not a Cuckoo-Shrike, but a Bulbul, as correctly determined by Temminck. 



3. Lalage leucoph.ea. 



Sylvia leucophaea, Vieill. N. Diet. xi. p. 189. 

 Described as grey above, aud consequently not to be referred to L. terat or 

 L. timoriensis, as has been done by some authors. 



4. Lalage nyctuemei!A {Temm.); Hartl. J. f. 0. 186.5, p. 165. 



The type is from Timor, in the Leiden Museum, aud is Oreicola melanoleuca 

 (V.) with the under mandible broken off. 



