AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 193 



In Ceylon, according to Mr. Holdsworth, it is " generally distributed 

 over the low country, but is locally abundant at certain seasons. It is very 

 common at Aripo and in the neighbourhood of Colombo during the N.E. 

 monsoon. I have always found it in small parties, and easy of approach." 



Dr. Armstrong also met with the species, on the island of Ramesuram. 



In a paper on the birds of North-eastern Cachar, Mr. Inglis says : — 

 " The Ashy Swallow-Shrikes are often seen, in flocks, throughout the year. 

 I have not seen their nests." 



The range of the species in Burmah is given in the list of localities ; and 

 it goes as far down as Upper Pegu, where Mr. Gates says that it abounds 

 throughout the plains. Eastward it extends through Siam to Cochin China 

 and Hainan, where Mr. Swinhoe got specimens. 



The American expedition to Japan met wdth the present species at 

 Macao, in China, where, however, all Mr. Swinhoe's efforts to procure the 

 bird proved futile. 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a,b,c,ad. N.W. Himalayas [PinwilT). d,e,ad. Behar [Hodgson). f-i,ad.,juv. Nepal (flbc^grsow). 

 k, ad. Darjiling [Jerdon). l,m,n,ad. Madras [Baber). o, ad., p, juv. Kandy district^ 

 Ceylon [White). 



8. Artamus superciliosus. 



Ocypterus superciliosus, Gouldj P. Z. S. 1836^ p. 142; id. Syn. B. Austr. part i. (1837). 

 Artamus superciliosus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 285 (1845) ; Reichenb. Vog. NeuhoU. p. 169 (1848) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 32 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 199 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 344 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 169 (1850) ; Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. 



p. 82 (1865) ; Miiller, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 279 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 289 (1869) ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. iii. p. 179 (1878). 



6 ad. suprk schistaceus, uropygio et supracaudalibus cinerascentibus : ala cineracea, remigibus 

 omnibus nigro terminatis : rectricibus cineraceis albo terminatis et fasciam apicalem exhi- 

 bentibus : supercilio lato albo ab oculo antico usque ad nucbam ducto : loris, facie laterali 

 et gutture toto scbistaceo-nigris, boo infrk clarius schistaceo : corpore reliquo subtiis 



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