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i'. Tail-feathers all bi'oad to their ends, 

 when the tail is louger than the wins. 

 a". Breast and under tail-coverts black 

 or strongly glossed with green, blue, 



violet or bronze, at least in adults. . Lamprotomis. I' . ■S~ I 

 li". Breast and under tail-coverts white 

 or chestnut. Tail shorter than the 



wing Sjneo. 



6". Plumage of se.xes generally dissimilar; 



some rufous on the wings in the female ; 



breast and under tail-coverts neither 



white nor rufous. 



c'. Larger ; wings alike in both sexes . . Onyclwgnathus. 



d'. Smaller, wing less than 4-5 inches ; 



primaries entirely blackish in the males. Pwoptcrus. 

 b^. Feathers of the head and neck lanceolate .... Sturnus. 

 b'^. Head and neck not entirely feathered. 



C-. A bare track of skin down the sides of the throat 



or the entire head bare and wattled Cheatoplwrn. 



(/-'. No portion of the throat bare ; bill and feet yellow, 

 e-'. Feathers of crown lanceolate ; bare skin on head 



next to the eye -Icriilothere.f. 



d^. Feathers of crown not lanceolate ; bare portion 



of head forms yellow lappets on sides of crown . Mninntits. 

 Head and neck white or pale grey, and the under parts 

 white ; bill and feet yellow (extinct). 



c^. With long crest-feather of loose texture Fregilupiis. 



d^. No crest ; plumage almost entirely white .... Necropsar. 



Genus I. HYPOCOLIUS. 



Bill pink, with the end black, broader than deep ; culmen curved ; upper 

 mandible with a slight notcli near the end ; nasal aperture rounded and 

 exposed. Wing shorter than the tail ; distance between the tip of the 

 secondaries and end of wing less than the length of the tarsus ; primaries, 

 one small, not reaching to the end of the primary-coverts, three and four 

 longest. Tail rounded, the outer feathers falling short of the centre ones by 

 0"5 inch. Tarsi, feet and claws pink. 



Type. 

 Hypocolius, Bp. Consp. i. p. 336 (1850) H. ampelintis. 



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