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a, b. J 2 ad. sk. Upper India. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 



2. Oreicola melanoleuca. 



CEnanthe melanoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet. (mist. Nat. xxi. p. 435. 

 Saxicola melanoleuca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 304 {ex Miiller, MS. in Mus. 



Lugd.) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 167 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. J?, i. p. 227, no. 3269. 

 Saxicola luctuosa, Bp. Consp. i. p. 304 (e.r Miiller, MS. in Mus. 



Lugd.); Wall. R Z. S. 1863, p. 485; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, n. 167 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 3270. 

 Sylvia nycthemera, Temm. in Mus. Lugd., imdh 

 Lalage nycthemera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 355 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 ; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 165; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 172; Salvad. 



Ucc. Born. p. 148. 

 Oreicola melanoleuca, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 6. 

 Oreicola luctuosa, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 6. 

 Campephaga nycthemera, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 339, no. 5127. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy black, the bases to the 

 rump-feathers greyish ; tail black ; wings also black, with a large 

 white patch, fonned of all the innermost series of coverts (lesser, 

 median, and greater) together with the white bases to the inner- 

 most secondaries ; sides of face and cheeks glossy black like 

 the head; on each side of the hinder crown a few white-tipped 

 feathers ; entire under surface of body white, including the outer 

 aspect of the thighs, which are black behind ; axiUaries and under 

 wing-coverts white, those near the edge of the wing black ; quiUs 

 blackish below, the secondaries conspicuously white towards the 

 base of their inner webs. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2-9, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. General colour above sandy brown, inclining to 

 more rufous-brown towards the rump, some of the feathers with 

 longitudinal centres of darker brown ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; 

 two centre tail-feathers brown edged with rufous, the other feathers 

 light rufous on the inner webs, darker brown on the outer, with an 

 external edge of rufous ; wings dark brown, all the feathers with 

 rufous edgings, the innermost of the wing-coverts edged with ashy 

 gre)' or hoar}- white, forming an indistinct patch ; lores and a di- 

 stinct eyebrow buffy white, as also a ring of feathers round the eye; 

 ear-coverts and feathers below the e3'e dark brown, with narrow 

 rufous shaft-lines ; under surface of body bufty whitish, the breast 

 washed with cream-colour, as also the sides of the body ; axiUaries 

 and under wing-coverts white with dusky bases ; quiUs dull brown 

 below, with rufous edges along the inner web. Total length 6'1 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2*75, tail 2'5, tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. Island of Timor. 



a. Ad. St. Timor. Purchased. 



6, c. cf ad. sk. E. Timor. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [CI. 



d, e. S ad. ; /. J ad. sk. Semao, Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [Cj. 



