172 PRIONOPID/F:. 



Hal. British Burmah (Tennaserim)and Nepal. Hainan (Swinh.). Cochin- 

 China (Tiraud). Mr. Davison found it all over the Tennaserim Division as far 

 down as Mergui. It is, according to Gates, spread all over the Pegu Division 

 where he found it, and C. melanoptera in much the same localities. 



Swinhoe's Cuckoo-Shrike does not differ in its habits from the other species 

 of the genus. All live almost entirely on insectivorous diet which they either 

 pick off leaves, or capture on the ground. 



185. Campophaga melanoptera, Rupp. Mus. Senck.\\\. p. 25; 



tab. ii. f. I.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 67. Campephaga melanoptera, 

 Bl. J . A. S. B. xv. p. 307. Campephaga avensis, Bl. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 

 Beng. p. 327. Volvocivora avensis, BL B. Burmah, p. 123; Hume, Sir. 

 F. iii. p. 93 ; v. p. 205 ; viii. p. 91. BLYTH'S CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 



In every respect similar to Campophaga intermedia, except that the central 

 tail feathers are washed with grey on the basal half, the vent and under tail 

 coverts are pure white, and the white tippings to the tail feathers much 

 broader. 



The female is as pure grey above as the male, and the shafts of the feathers 

 of the head are as black. Rump and upper tail coverts paler and indistinctly 

 barred. Under surface greyish white, everywhere barred with ashy ; prima- 

 ries with a white patch basally ; tail dark brown, the middle rectrices ashy ; all 

 the feathers tipped with white. Bill and legs black ; iris hazel-brown. 



Length. 9 to 9*5 inches ; wing 4*3 ; tail 4/3 to 4*5 ; culmen r ; tarsus '9. 



Hab. British Burmah. Spread over the whole of Pegu. Common in Ar- 

 rakan ; also in Tennaserim, where Davison found it as far south as Moulmein. 



186. Campophaga neglecta, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 203 ; viii. p. 91 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 68 ; Oates, B. Burmah, i. p. 232. Campo- 

 phaga polioptera, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. p. 69, pi. ii. Volvocivora 

 neglecta, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 203. DAVISON'S CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 



Male. In all respects the same as Campophaga melanoptera, but differs in 

 having the upper parts a shade darker, and a white patch on the primaries. 

 The female too is not unlike the female of C. melanoptera ; the differences, if 

 any exist, are so insignificant that really it cannot be separated from the latter. 

 There is a difference in size, but when it is a remarkable fact that such 

 differences are stretched in some families to as much as half an inch or more 

 the same latitude should be permitted in the case of the Genus Campophaga 

 with such nearly uniform colouring. 



C. melanoptera has the wing 4-3 ; tail 4-3 ; length 9 inches. 

 intermedia. 4'8 ; tail 4-5 ; 9-5 



neglecta 4- ; tail 3*35 ; 8- 



Another species, which I do not admit, is Campophaga innominata, Gates, 

 B, Br. Burmah i. p. 233. Volvocivora Vidua, (Hartl.) Hume, Str. F. v. 



