e56 STUENID^. 



feathers black, washed externallj' with glossy green ; crown of head 

 and hind neck like the back, the latter narrowly streaked with 

 white shaft-lines ; forehead, lores, eyebrow, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and throat white, the ear-coverts edged witli pale brown, 

 producing a slightly streaked ajjpearauce ; sides of neck black, 

 streaked with white ; fore neck and remainder of under surface of 

 body dull greyish brown, streaked with white down the middle of 

 the feathers : abdomen ashy white; sides of upper breast and sides 

 of neck blackish streaked with white ; thighs brown, streaked witli 

 white ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts blackish ; 

 axillai-ies ashy brown with white shaft-lines ; quills below dusky 

 brown, a little more ashy along the inner edge : "bill pale bluish 

 horny, the gape and base bluish; legs and feet plumbeous blue; 

 eyelid bluish ; iris white, with a narrow inner centre of reddish 

 brown ; orbital skin and eyelid dull bluish " ( W. V. Ler/r/e). Total 

 length 8-3 inches, culmeu U-!), wing 4-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-0. 



^'•Young. Iris brown, with a faint grey outer edge ; this increases, 

 and in birds evidently still in the first year the proportions of white 

 and brown in the iris are about equal, the furmer gradually in- 

 creasing until it leaves the narrow brown circle ; bill, legs, and feet 

 as in the adult. In nest-plumage the forehead, head, and hind 

 neck are concolorons and of a dull brown hue ; a whitish superciliary 

 stripe passes from the nostrils over the eye ; the ear-coverts are 

 sullied white, but the white of the throat seems to extend lower 

 down, and to change abruptly into the dark grey of the chest ; the 

 lower parts, however, are not always equally dark ; some examples 

 have them pervaded with whitish ; but the chief character of the 

 under surface in the immature bird is the absence of the white 

 mesial stripes, contrasting strongly with the grey of the rest of the 

 feathers. The white of the forehead appears during the first year 

 and increases with subsequent moults, which take place in August." 

 (ir. V. Lerjge.) 



Hob. Ceylon. 



a,b. d $ ad. sk. Ceylon, Jan. 1866 {S. Tweeddale Coll. 



Chapman). 

 c. cJ ad. sk. Peak Forest, Aug. 17, II. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



lSlQ{W.V.Legge). 

 d d ad. sk. Singha Rajah Forest, Hume Coll. 



South Ceylon. Aug. 21, 



1872 {W. V. Leyye). 

 e. Ad. sk. Nuwara EUva. Mr. E. Boate [C.]. 



/. S ad. sk. Ceylon, Jan. 23, 1866 Marquis of Tweeddale 



(.S'. Chapman). [P.]. 



4. STURNOPASTOR. ^ 



Type. 



Sturnopastor, Hodgs. in Grays Zool. Ilisc. p. 84 (1884) S. contra. 



Psarites, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 203 (1853) S. contra. 



Range. Indian Peninsula ; Burmese countries ; Java and Sumatra, 

 Bali, Madura. 



