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web white and olso a portiou of the edge of the inner web ; primary- 

 coverts and quills black, the secondaries externally bordered with 

 white, forming a longitudinal bar down the wing ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts clear grey, the latter with silvery grey edges ; 

 tail-feathers black, narrowly edged with st.'el-green, tipped with 

 white, these tips much broader on the outer feathers, the two centre 

 ones shaded with grey towards the base of their inuer webs ; nasal 

 plumes, lores, and a broad eyebrow white ; a spot in front of the eye 

 and a streak behind the latter, above the ear-coverts to the sides of 

 the nape, black ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and entire under surface 

 of body pure white, with a slight greyish tint on the breast and 

 flanks ; under wing-coverts and inner lining of quills white for more 

 than half the inuer web ; " bill black ; legs and feet black or 

 plumbeous; soles yellowish horny; iris brown" {Hume). Total 

 length 6-1 inches, culmen 0-G5, wing 3-35, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-8. 



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

 lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts, the latter with whitish 

 edges, the head and mantle with blackish streaks down the centre of 

 the feathers ; below white, the breast narrowly barred with obscure 

 greyish cross lines ; two centre tail-feathers grey at base and for the 

 greater part of their inner webs ; " bill black ; legs blackish grey ; 

 iris dark brown " {A. Everett). Total length 6-3 inches, wing 3-6, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 0-8. 



Dr. Hartlaub describes the female as similar to the male, but 

 Count Salvadori (' Ucc. Born.' p. 147) identifies this sex as having a 

 grey back. I have described Labuan birds sent without labels by 

 Mr. Low and Governor Ussher, but evidently male and female. 

 Mr. Everett has settled the question by sending correctly dissected 

 specimens from Luzon which agree with the Labuan birds described 

 by me. Salvadori hints at the probability of the Bornean bird being 

 specifically distinct from that of the rest of the Malayan archipelago, 

 but I find Philippine examples not diftering from those of Labuan. 

 Lord Tweeddale says that birds from Southern Borneo have a longer 

 wing and larger bill than those of Java. 



Young. Like the old females, but the grey back more or less suf- 

 fused with brown, the feathers in some parts edged with Avhity brown ; 

 below the dusky cross lines are broader, and the chest is washed with 

 sandy bufE ; the greater wing-coverts have zigzag cross bars of 

 blackish. 



Count Salvadori describes the young as being " like the females, 

 but varied with white above and longitudinalhj streaked and spotted 

 with dusky below." This must be a younger stage than I have yet 

 seen. 



Hah. Nicobar Islands, Malayan peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Labuan, Philippine Islands. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Nancowry Island, Ni- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



cobars, Dec. 1873 



(Capf. Wimberley). 

 h. (S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c,d. S 'id., e. 2 ad.sk. \\' . ia.\M E.C.Bu.vton). F. JS'icholson, Esq. [P.]. 



