CAMPEPHAGIN &. 149 
THe BLACK-HEADED Cuckoo-SuHrikE. 
Vength, 75; wing, 4; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 0°8 ; bill at front, 0:5. 
Bill black ; irides dark red-brown ; feet black. 
Head, neck, and breast deep black ; whole upper plumage pale 
grey; tail black, the outer feathers broadly tipped with white ; 
lower breast and abdomen pale grey, passing gradually to white 
on the lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts. 
The young bird has the head grey like the back; the throat 
and entire‘ under parts whitish, with dusky cross rays; and the 
rump more or less distinctly rayed. 
The Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike is a not uncommon. visitant 
to most parts of the district, but it has not as yet been recorded 
from Sind. 
Volvocivora melaschista, Hodgson. 
269.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 415; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 393. 
THE: DaRK-GREY CuCK00-SHRIKE. 
_ Length, 9:5 to 10; expanse, 15; wing, 46; tail, 5-25; tarsus, 
0°88 ; bill at front, 0°62. 
_ Bill black ; irides hazel-brown; legs black. 
Plumage iron-grey, darker and almost black on the quills and 
tail, the latter tipped white on all but the central feathers, paler 
grey beneath. G4 
Young birds are dusky-grey above, paler beneath, with dark 
bands ; albescent on the under tail-coverts, 
The Dark-grey Cuckoo-Shrike has been obtained at Savant- 
vadi, but there is no other record of its eccurrence within our 
limits. 
Genus, Hypocolius, Bp. 
Bill hooked at tip, and notched ; third quill longest ; feet scutel- 
lated ; tail long, subcuneate. 
Hypocolius ampelinus, Bp. 
269quat.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 123. 
Length, 10°25 ; wing, 4:2; tail, 4°75; tarsus, 1 ; bill from gape 
0 9. 
' Bill horny, dusky at tip ; legs flesh-colored. 
_ Upper parts generally ashy-grey, with a slight rufous tinge on 
the head, which is more marked on the frontal portion where the 
feathers are rather lighter and more isabelline in tint 3 feathers 
above the nostrils, lower part of the lores, all round the eyes, and 
a band round the nape, black, so that there is a black ring all 
round the head, except in the centre of the forehead ; ear-coverts 
dark silver-grey, looking black in. some lights in the preserved 
skin; primary quills black, with rather long white tips, the tip 
on the first long primary being wholly, and on the second partially 
dusky ; outer secondaries black with grey edges, the: black dimi- 
