70 TIMELIID^E. 



500. Henicurus Leschenaulti (Vieiil.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 251. 



Turdus Leschenaulti, Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 258; StoL, J. A. S. B. xxxix. 

 p. 304; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, i. p. 360; Hume, Str. F. 1879 

 pp. 65, 103 ; Oafes, B. Br. Burm. p. 27 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 313. Turdus Leschenaulti, Vieill., N. Diet. d'Eist. Nat. xx. p. 269. 

 Enicurus sinensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 665. The LARGER BLACK-BACKED 

 FORK-TAIL. 



Upper back uniform black, also the lesser and median coverts, as well as 

 the primary coverts and primaries, occiput, nape, sides of the crown, lores, 

 eyebrows, ear coverts, cheeks, sides of the neck, throat and breast ; greater 

 coverts tipped with white, the innermost white for their terminal half ; lower 

 back, rump and upper tail coverts, also the crown of the head, tapering to a 

 point on the vertex, abdomen, sides of the body, flanks, thighs, under tail and 

 under wing coverts white ; tail black, with a broad white spot at the tip, the two 

 outermost feathers entirely white ; axillaries black. Bill black ; irises dark 

 brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy white. 



Length 10 to 1 1 inches ; wing 4*2 to 4*3 ; tail 57 ; tarsus 1-3 ; culmen 0-95. 



ffab. Java, and according to Gates, extends to Tenasserim. He quotes 

 Davison to the effect that he met with it in various places in Tenasserim from 

 Kollidoo down to Meeta Myo, and that it seems to be confined to the rivulets 

 of the denser evergreen forests below 2,500 feet elevation; also that it has been 

 observed in the Lushai and Daffla hills and in Assam, but Mr. Sharpe says a fur- 

 ther comparison of specimens from Tenasserim will probably prove the species 

 to be H. sineniis. The specimens by me prove the identity of both species. 

 I cannot admit the distinctness of Henicurus Sineiisis, Gould, 

 P. Z. S., 1865, p. 665 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br Mus. vii. p. 313, characterized 

 as it is only by the white of the crown ending in a rounded form, and the 

 spot on the tip of the tail feathers being oblique. The distribution of 

 Leschenaulti must therefore be extended to China and Malacca, and H. 

 sinensis, Gould, become a synonym of Leschenaulti, VieilL 



501. Henicurus immacUlatUS, Hodgs., Av'at. Research, xix. 

 p. 190 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 157 Bp. Consp. i. p. 25 1 ; Jerd., B. Jnd. ii, 

 p. 213, No. 585 ; Hume and Oates, Str. F. 1875, pp. 9, 141 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 iii. p. 141 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 314 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 466; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, P- IO 3 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 25. The WHITE- 

 BREASTED FORK-TAIL. 



Base of the bill black ; forehead and a narrow line over and above the eye 

 white ; lores, face, sides of the neck, chin, throat, top of head and neck and 

 the back deep black ; rump, upper tail coverts and the whole lower plumage 

 white, except the feathers on the sides of the upper breast, which are tipped 

 with black ; axillaries and under wing coverts white ; primaries black, the 

 later ones white basally on their outer web ; the secondaries and tertiaries 



