284 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



eye very broad : lores grey, ears blackish : tail even ; upper 

 tail covers, and some of the lateral tail feathers, black ; the rest 

 brown ; the two outer pair pure white, but black at their base, 

 and marked with a brown spot on their outside tips : under 

 plumage white, tinged with grey on the breast. 



10. Tephrodornis hirundinaceus. 



Above, black, glossed with blue ; beneath, white : 

 front destitute of lengthened incumbent bristles: band 

 on the rump, and borders of the outermost tail feather, 

 white. 



Inhabits Java. Mus. Nost. Mus. hirundinacea, 

 PI. Col.pl. 119. 



Total length 4\ inches ; bill, front ^ to -f^ ; gape ^ ; 

 wings 2; tail, beyond, 1 ; base If^; tarsus ^''5. I have found 

 it necessary to draw up a specific character for this species, as 

 I have reason to know that the female has been confounded 

 with T. superciliosus, notwithstanding tlie great difference in 

 their size : the outermost tail feather is deep black, bordered 

 all round with white. 



11. Analcipus hirundinaceus. 



Above, black, glossed with blue green : band on the 

 rump, and all the under plumage, pure white. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 6 inches; bill, gape -f^; front ^3; wings 

 3^ ; tail, beyond, -^ ; from the base 2 ; tarsus |3. Bill cine- 

 reous, the margins whitish : the whole of the upper plumage 

 glossed with bluish green ; the blue tint predominating on the 

 head, but there is little or none on the quills and tail : inner 

 wing covers deep black : the black forms a band under the 

 eye, and covers the upper half of the ears : the third and fourth 

 quills equal and longest. 



12. Saurophagus pusillus. 

 Colours of Saurophagus sul- ^^^ 

 phuratus ; but all the yellow }' 

 crest feathers tipt with black. 

 Total length, six inches and a 

 half. {fig. 45.) 



Inhabits Brazil and Guiana ; 

 but very rare in the former. 

 Total length 6h inches ; bill, front fg ; ditto, gape 1 ; wings 8^*5 



