4o. RHiriDUKA. 339 



Ltd. B. p. 201 ; Bull, Sir. F. 1874, p. 404 ; Butkr, S. F. 1875, 



p. 467 ; Fiiirb. ' S. F. 1876, p. 257 ; Uwm ^- Damson, S. F. 1877, 



p. 225. 

 Leucocerca conlpressil•o;^tris, ^^ Blyth" Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 463; Blijtft, 



Ibis, 1806, p. 370. 

 Rhipidura compressirostris, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4988. 

 Leucocerca aureola, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 370 ; Adam, Str. F. 1873, 



p. 377 ; Cock 4'- Marsh, t. c. p. 3-52 ; Hume, t. c. pp. 178, 436, et 



1875, p. 104. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, all, including the primary-coverts, terminally tipped with 

 triangular spots of white ; quills brown, externally edged with ashy 

 brown, the secondaries with hoary white ; tail-feathers brown, all 

 but the two centre ones tipped with white, which increases in 

 extent towards the outermost, on which it occupies more than the 

 terminal half and the entire outer web ; crown of head slaty black, 

 as also the lores and sides of face ; a broad frontal band and the 

 sides of the crown white ; cheeks and throat white, with black bases 

 to the feathers, the plumes of the lower throat less broadly edged 

 with white, so that it appears blacker ; rest of under surface of body 

 pure white, including the under wing-coverts ; axillaries dark brown, 

 edged with whitish; thighs white, with brown bases: "bill and 

 legs black ; iris deep brown " (Jerdon). Total length 6'7 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 3-15, tail 3"6, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult fenude. Similar to the male, but browner and rather less 

 ashy. Total length 6*7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-35, tail 3*65, 

 tarsiis 0*75. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having rusty margins to the 

 feathers of the upper surface, especially the wrng-coverts, and in 

 having the white under surface slightly washed with rusty. 



Hah. India and Ceylon, extending into Sindh to the westward, 

 and eastward through Burmah to Pegu. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Zoological Society. 

 Capt. Stackbouse PinwiU 



[P-]- 

 Capt. T. Biddulph [C.l. 

 Capt. T. Biddidph [CJ. 

 Major J. Haves Llovd 



[P.]. 

 Capt. C. H. T. Marshall 



fp.]. 

 Purchased. 



Rev. H. H. Baber [C.]. 

 Colonel Sturt [P.j. 

 Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



51. Rhipidura tricolor. 



Museicapa tricolor, Viei/L X. Diet, d' Hist. Xat. xxi. p. 490; Pucher. 

 Rev. Zoo/. 1865, p. 15. ■ 



