COPSYCHl'S. * * ' 



Far 8 F vi, p. 332; Anders. Yunnan Expert., Aves, p. 613; 

 Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 433; Hume, Cat. no. 475; (to, B. B. i, 

 p. 20 ; &taye, CW. 5. 3f. vii, p. 61 : tfarae*, 5w<Zs Z?o»». p. 19/ , 

 Oates in Hume a N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 80. 

 Copsychus musicus (Raffl.), apud Hume # 7)«». & /-. vi, p. *» , 

 JZwne, CM. no. 475 bis ; Oates, i?. P. i, p. 21. 

 Dffj/flr or Z>^/«/, Hind, and Beng. ; Perfrfa nalanchi, Sarela-gadu, Tel. 

 Zannid-pho, Lepch.: Thapate-lway, Buna. 



Fig. 36.— Head of C. saularis. 



Coloration. Male, Head, neck, breast, and upper plumage glossy 

 black ; abdomen, sides of tbe body, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 wing black, the last two secondaries with a considerable amount ot 

 white on tbe outer webs, the lesser and median coverts and the 

 outer webs of tbe later greater coverts also white ; tbe median 

 two pairs of tail-feathers black, the others white, the fourth pair, 

 however, varying from white with a small black tip to white with 

 a greater or less amount of black in combination ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, with ashy bases varying in extent. 



Female. Wings and tail dark brown, with white distributed as 

 in the male ; chin, throat, breast, and sides of the neck dark grey ; 

 forehead, lores, and cheeks mottled with white and grey ; the 

 whole upper plumage uniform dark brown glossed with bluish ; 

 sides of tbe bodv, vent, and under tail-coverts pale fulvescent; 

 middle of the abdomen whitish ; under wing-coverts white. 



The young have the crown and nape ashy brown ; upper plumage 

 dark brown, streaked or barred with rufous ; wings dark brown, 

 with rufous tips to the lesser coverts and broad rufous margins to 

 the quills ; the white in the wing disposed as in the adult, and 

 the tail brown, with tbe white portions similarly disposed ; throat 

 and breast greyish brown tipped with rufous ; remainder of the 

 lower plumage white. The adult plumage is assumed almost as 

 soon as the young bird is fully fledged. _ 



Bill black; mouth flesh-colour; eyelids plumbeous; ins hazel- 

 brown ; legs dark plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 



Length about 8; tail 3-6; wing 3-7; tarsus 1-15; bill irom 



gape 1. . . , . ., 



Throughout its great range C. saularis is very constant in its 

 type of plumage, the only variation noticeable being in the colora- 

 tion of the tail and the under wing-coverts and axillaries. 



Throughout Continental India and Burma to about Moulmein 

 most of the birds have the fourth pair of tail-feathers, from the 

 outside white with a small black tip. South of Moulmein and 



