COPSYCIIfS. 



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Jhir. S. F. vi, p. 332 ; Anders. Yunnan Hxped., Aves, p. C13 ; 

 J'<'(/(/?, Birds Ceyl. p. 433 ; Hume, Cat. no. 475 ; Gates, B. B. i, 

 p. 20 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 01 : Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 197 ; 

 Oates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 80. 



Copaychus musicus (Rqffi.), apud Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 333 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 475 bis ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 21. 



Dayar or Dayal, Hind, and Beng. ; Pedda nalanchi, 8arcla-gachi, Tel. 

 Zannid-pho, Lepch.; Thapate-livay, Burm. 



Fig. 30>. Head of C. saulari?. 



Coloration. Male, Head, neck, breast, and upper plumage glossy 

 black ; abdomen, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 wing black, the last two secondaries with a considerable amount of 

 white on the outer webs, the lesser and median coverts and the 

 outer webs of the later greater coverts also white ; the median 

 two pairs of tail-feathers black, the others white, the fourth pair, 

 however, varying from white with a small black tip to white with 

 a greater or less amount of black in combination ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, with ashy bases varying in extent. 



Female. Wings and tail dark brown, with white distributed as 

 in the male ; chin, throat, breast, and sides of the neck dark grey ; 

 forehead, lores, and cheeks mottled with white and grey ; the 

 whole upper plumage uniform dark brown glossed with bluish ; 

 sides of the body, vent, and under tail-coverts pale fulvescent ; 

 middle of the abdomen whitish ; under wing-coverts white. 



The young have the crown and nape ashy brown ; upper plumage 

 dark brown, streaked or barred with rufous ; wings dark brown, 

 with rufous tips to the lesser coverts and broad rufous margins to 

 the quills ; the white in the wing disposed as in the adult, and 

 the tail brown, with the white portions similarly disposed ; throat 

 and breast greyish brown tipped with rufous ; remainder of the 

 lower plumage white. The adult plumage is assumed almost as 

 soon as the young bird is fully fledged. 



Bill black ; mouth flesh-colour ; eyelids plumbeous ; iris hazel- 

 brown ; legs dark plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 



Length about 8 ; tail 3'6 ; wing 3-7 ; tarsus 1-15 ; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Throughout its great range C. saularis is very constant in its 

 type of plumage, the only variation noticeable being in the colora- 

 tion of the tail and the under wing-coverts and axilhiries. 



Throughout Continental India and Burma to about Moulnirin 

 most of the birds have tho fourth pair of tail-feathers, from tin 1 

 outside, white with a small black tip. South of Moulmein and 



