102 CAMPOPHAGID^. 



black ; feet bluish ; iris hazel." Total length 8 iuches, culiucn 0-7 ">, 

 wing 4-1.3, tail 34, tarsus 1-U5. 



Adult, female. Ditferent from the male. General colour dull 

 rufous-bro-wn, the rump and upper tail-coverts brighter and more 

 brick-red ; least wing-coverts like the back, the rest of the wing- 

 coverts and the quills blackish brown, edged with duU reddish 

 brown, the primaries with whity brown near the tips ; centre tail- 

 feathers brown, washed with lighter brown ; the rest of the tail- 

 feathers blackish, tipped with pale reddish like the centre ones ; 

 head duUer and more olivaceous brown than the back, contrasting 

 with it, the feathers mesially streaked with blackish ; lores ashy 

 whitish ; feathers in front of and behind the eye dusky brown ; 

 above the eye a faint indication of a rufous eyebrow ; ear-coverts 

 light rufous, mottled with brown streaks and whitish shaft-lines ; 

 the plumes below the eye whitish ; under surface of body chestnut, 

 the chin and fore part of cheeks white, forming a moustache ; under 

 wing-coverts light chestnut ; quills ashy brown below, edged with 

 light rufous on the inner web. Total length 8-8 inches, culmen 0-9, 

 wing 4-25, tail 3-5, tarsus 1'2. 



Hab. Mauritius. 



a. S ad. sk. Mauritius, Nov. 1860. E. Newton, Esq. [P.]. 



b,c. (S 2 ad.sk. M&unthis (Beuslier). R. B. Shai-pe,Esq.[P.]. 



13. Lalage newtoni, 



Oxynotus fen-ugiueus, Pollen, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim. Reunion, iii. p. 7, 



pi. 1 (18G5, ncc Freycin.); Ven: in Vins. Note sur Vile Reunion, 



p. IGl'. 

 Oxvnotus newtoni, Pollen, Ibis, 1866, p. 278, pi. 8 ; Schl. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 423 ; Sclil. ^- Pollen, Faun. Madug. p. 84 ; Hartl. Vog. 



Madag. 1877, p. 84. 

 Campepiiaga newtoni, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 340, no. 5132. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, the crown streaked 

 with dusky shaft-lines to the feathers, the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts a little lighter grey than the back ; wings black, contrasting 

 -with the back, the least coverts edged with dull grey, the median 

 and greater series with obscure and almost obsolete margins of grey ; 

 quiUs narrowly margined with hoary white, the inner secondaries 

 slightly tipped with the same : taU-feathers black, tipped with white, 

 which increases in extent towards the outermost, which have very 

 broad white ends ; a spot in front of the eye dusky blackish ; eyelid 

 hoary grey ; car-coverts and sides of face dull ashy grey, spotted 

 with white below the eye ; chin and upper throat greyish white ; 

 rest of under surface light ashy grey, white on the centre of the 

 body and under tail-coverts ; thighs light ashy ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, the latter slightly shaded with grey ; quUls 

 blackish below, white towards the base of the inner webs ; soft parts 

 as in female (Pollen 4' f'^'i Dam). Total length 7 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 3-9, tail 3-3, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above rusty brown, 

 rather more ashy on the head ; least wing-coverts like the back ; 



