104 CAMPOPHAGIDiE. 



Volvocivora vidua, Ilartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 163 (type examined). 

 Campephaga vidua, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 388, no. 5110. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty grey, blacker on the 

 bead and sides of face, which have also a slight gloss ; wings black, 

 with glossy black margins to the feathers, the least wing-coverts 

 edged with slaty grey like the back ; tail black, the two outer feathers 

 with greyish-white spots at the tip, the third feather scarcely per- 

 ceptibly tipped with white ; entire under surface of body slaty grey, 

 darker and blacker on the throat and fore neck ; under wing-coverts 

 dark slaty grey ; quiUs ashy, blackish below. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 4, tail 3"6, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of L. culminata described 

 below, but a little larger. Wing 3-8 inches, tail 3-2, tarsus 0*75. 



Hah. Java. 



a. cJ ad. sk. E. Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Java. J. Inskipp, Esq. [P.]. 

 e. Ad. sk. Java. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 

 d, e. Ad. sk. [Celebes.] Purchased. 



Subsp. a. Lalage culminata. 



Ceblepyris culminatus, A. Hay, Madr. Juurn. xiii. p. 157 ; Blyfh, 



J. A. S. B. XV. p. 307. 

 Ceblepyris fimbriata (pt.), S. Midi. Natuurl. Geschied. Land- en 



Volkenk. p. 190. 

 Volvocivora fimbriata (7iec Temm.), Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 218 ; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1805, p. 161 (pt.). 

 Volvocivora schierbrandii, Pelz.Bets. Novara, Vog. pp. 80, 161, Taf. 2. 



fig. 1 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1866, p. 161 ; Salrad. TJcc. Born. p. 148. 

 Volvocivora borneensis, Salrad. Atti R. Ace. Torino, iii. p. 532. 

 Campephaga schierbrandii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5108. 

 Campephaga borneensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 194, sp. 5104ef. 

 Volvocivora culminata, Tweedd. Ihis, 1877, p. 312 ; Hume, Stray F. 



1877, p. 495. 



Adult male. Similar to L. Jimhrkita, but smaller and a little 

 lighter slaty grey. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-8, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. General colour above light grey, slightly darker on 

 the head, the rump and upper tail-coverts paler and with hoary white 

 edgings to the feathers ; least wing-coverts grey like the back, the 

 median and greater scries ashy brown, margined with grey ; quills 

 brown, washed with grey on the outer web, the primaries edged with 

 whitish towards the tips of their outer webs ; tail blackish tipped 

 with white, more largely on the inner web of the outer feathers, 

 which are more or less mottled with brown cross lines, the outer 

 feather white on the outer web, middle feathers washed with grey ; 

 under surface of body greyish white, barred across with narrow bars 

 of dusky black ; the under tail-coverts white with the cross bars wider 

 apart ; breast shaded with grey, the cross bars indistinct and 

 coalescing ; under wing-coverts like the breast ; lores dusky white ; 



