490 



CyPSELlD.'E. 



white like tlie under tail-coverts and a broad band across the 

 rump ; those parts have very small dark shaft-lines and dark basal 

 portions to tlic feathers ; under wing-coverts dark slaty grey. 

 Total length about 4 inches, wing 4-5, tail 1'5. 



Hah. liritish India, especially the Central Provinces. 



a. 2 ad. ; i, c. Ad. sk. 

 d. 5 ad. ; e. S ad. ; 



/. Ad. sk. 

 ff~^- 6 fid. ; »i-o. 2 



ad. sk. 

 p. (S ad. sk. 

 q. Ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 



Seoni, C. P. 

 Jashpur, May. 



Eaipur, C. P., December. 



Wynaad, May 1 (77'. JJavisun). 



Gurwhal, December. 



W. of Chota Nag-pur, May 10. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



27. Chsetura leucopygialis *. 



Acanthylis leucopygialis, Blyih, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xviii. p. 809 



(1849) ; id. Ibis, 1866, p. 339. 

 Acanthylis coracina, Bjy. Consp. i. p. 64 (1850). 

 Cypselus coracinus, Schleg. Hundl. Dierk. i. pp. 221, 479, Fot/. pi. 2. 



fig. 14 (1857). 

 Chffitura coracina, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 614; id. J. f. O. 1867, 



p. 1.37; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 67, no. 777 (1869); Salvad. Ucc. 



Borneo, p. 124 (1874); Hume, Stray Feath. iii. p. 318 (1875), 



viii. p. 47 (Malay Penin.) (1879) ; Hume Sf Davison, Stray Feath. 



ii. p. 45 (Teuasserim) (1878); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 335 



(Labuan) ; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 24 ; Biittik. Not. Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 39 



(Sumatra) (1887). 

 Phaphidura leucopygialis, Oates, B. Bur?)}, ii. p. 6 (1883). 

 Cbfetura leucopygialis, Edham, Ibis, 1881, p. 372 (Singapore). 



Adult. Entirely blue-black, except the rump and upper tail- 

 ceverts, which are light ashy grey with black shaft-lines: "iris 

 dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dark purple " (Davison). 

 Total length about 4-7 inches, wing 4*8, tail 1-7. 



Hab. Southern Teuasserim, throughout the Malaj' Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Borneo, and Marintanan. 



a, h. S ad. ; c. 2 



ad. sk. 

 d. (S ad. sk. 

 e,f. d ad. ; </. Ad. 



sk. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. 

 k. S ad. ; /, m. 2 



ad. sk. 

 n. 2 id. sk. 



Choungthanoung, Teuasserim, 



May ( W. Davison). 

 Pakclian, Januarj^ ( 77^. Davison). 

 Klang, April, May ( 77^. Davison) 



Malacca. 

 Malacca, August 



Ramsay). 

 Malacca. 



( Wardlaw 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Pinwill Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



* I do not think it necessary to reject Blytli's name on account of the 

 nomen nudum Fallene leiccopygia (sic) of Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 168, on which I 

 remarked under C. sabinci. 



