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Range. Southern part of the Indian Peninsula, Burma, 

 Malay Peninsula, Andamaus, Sumatra, Borneo, and the 

 Philippine Archipelago. 



Key to the species. 



a. Head black. 



a' . General color yellowish olive melanocephalus . 



b' . Olive-yellow, mantle and under surface gray . cinerciventris. 

 c' . Entire upper and under surface gray. . . . chalcocephalus. 



b. Head not entirely black. 



a'. Hind head olive-greeu, like rest of head, 



throat black fuscijlavescens. 



b' . Hind head gray, throat gray phaeocephalus. 



1. Brachypodius melanocephalus. 



Lanius melanocephalus Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 309 (1789). 

 Brachypodius melanocephalus Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 576 



(1845); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 201 (1874). 

 Micropus melanocephalus Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 65 (1881); Biittik. 



N.L.M. 1887, p. 62; Gates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 294 (1889). 



Hab. From British Burma down to the Malay Peninsula ; 

 Nias , Sumatra , Banka , Java , Borneo , and Palawan (Phi- 

 lippine Islands). 



Two specimeas from British Burma, one said to be 

 obtained in Cochin China (DeyroUe 1 867), one from Ma- 

 lacca, four from Sumatra, four from Banka, two from 

 Java, one from Bawean (Java Sea), three from Borneo, 

 one from Labuan and two from Palawan. 



2. Brachypodius cinereiventris. 



Brachypodius cinereiventris Blyth , J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 576 (1845). 

 Micropus cinereiventris Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 67 (1881); Gates, 

 Birds Br. Ind. I, p. 295 (1889). 



Hab. From Tipperah through British Burma to Rangoon 

 and down to Malacca. 

 Not represented. 



3. Brachypodius chalcocephalus. 



Ixos chalcocephalus Temm. PI. Col. II, pi. 453, fig. 1 (1838). 

 Notes from the Leyden IMuseuin, Vol, XVII. 



