CAMPOPHAGA. 495 



C. sykesi is said to be a migrant, but I cannot ascertain this to 

 be a fact from the specimens I have examined. It possibly 

 wanders about a good deal, and this may have led to the idea that 

 it is migratory. 



Habits, fyc. Breeds from May to July, constructing a shallow 

 saucer-like nest of fine twigs, bound together with cobwebs, in a 

 fork of a tree. The eggs, usually three w number, are greenish 

 white marked with pale brown and measure about -83 by -65. 



509. Campophaga terat. The Pied Cuckoo-Shrike. 



Turdus terat, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 17 (pi. 273, fig. 2), (1783). 



Turdus orieiitalis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 821 (1788). 



Lalage orientalis (Gm.), Blyth, Cat. p. 192; Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, 



p. 175. 

 Lalage terat (Bodd.), Hume, S. F. i, p. 454, ii, p. 202 ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B, M. iv, p. 95 ; Hume, Cat. no. 269 ter*. 

 Carnpophaga terat (Bodd.), Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, 



Coloration. Male. The base of the forehead and a broad super- 

 cilium white ; crown, nape, hind neck, lores, the upper part of the 

 ear-coverts, the back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts glossy 

 black ; rump and upper tail-coverts grey, the latter with faint 

 white cross bars ; median and greater wing-coverts black broadly 

 edged with white ; quills black with a large white patch on the 

 inner web of each ; the secondaries and tertiaries edged with w r hite 

 on the outer web ; tail black, the two outer pairs of feathers with 

 broad white tips, the next pair more narrowly tipped with white ; 

 lower part of ear-coverts, sides of neck, and the whole lower 

 plumage white, tinged with ashy on the breast and flanks, on which 

 parts there are almost always faint traces of bars. 



Female. The black portions of the plumage of the male are re- 

 placed by brown and the greater wing-coverts are merely tipped 

 with white the wings and tail are very dark brown ; the whole 

 lower plumage regularly barred with dark grey except the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts. 



The nestling resembles the adult female, but every portion of 

 the upper plumage is barred with pale grey, each bar preceded by 

 a darker one ; the lower plumage is densely streaked with brown, 

 the streaks soon giving way to bars of the same colour. 



Legs and feet black or plumbeous ; soles yellowish horny ; bill 

 black ; iris brown (Hume). 



Length about 7 ; tail 2'8 ; wing 3*5 ; tarsus '75 ; bill from 

 gape -8. 



Distribution. The Nicobar Islands, where this species has been 

 found on Camorta and Nancowry. 



* The name Turdus dominicus of P. L. S. Muller is doubtfully referable to 

 this species and is, in any case, singularly inappropriate. I follow Sharpe in 

 discarding this name in favour of Boddaert's. 



