■236 SYLVIAD.E. 



Sp. 1. En. coronatus. Temm.Pl. Col. 113. 



En. atra, pilco cristalo, ventre, uropygio, fascia, alarum rectri- 

 cibus extimis totis, ceteris apicibus nivcis ; cauda longissimd. 



Dark-coloured Enicurus, with the pileus crested, and with the 

 belly, rump, bar on the wings, outer tail-feathers entirely, and 

 tips of the rest snow-white ; the tail very long. 



Motacilla speciosa. Linn. Trans. {Hursf.) v. xiii. p. 155. 



Length of the body four inches and a half, and of 

 the tail six inches : — " the extremity of the quill-fea- 

 thers has a slight cast of brown ; the head, except 

 the crest, the back, neck, breast, upper part of the 

 abdomen, and the interior tail-feathers, are most in- 

 tensely black, exhibiting, when exposed to a strong 

 light, a lustre of blue : at the extremity of three or 

 four of the secondary wing-feathers is a very narrow 

 band of white : the feathers of the hypochondriac are 

 elongated and delicately villous : the beak is black ; 

 the feet are flesh-coloured." — Horsjidd. 



Sp. 2. En. velatus. Temm. PI. Col. 1 60. 



En. supra ardosiaco-niger ; subtus albns; mento collor/nc anlicc 

 nigris; f route fascia alba; alis nigris basi albo ; cauda nigra : 

 rectricibus extends totis rcliquis basi, inter mediisque apice, 

 alb is. 



Enicurus above slaty-black ; beneath white ; with the chin and 

 neck in front black ; a white frontal band ; the wings black, 

 white at the base; the tail black; its outer feathers entirely, 

 the rest at the base, and the tips of the middle ones, white. 



Considerably less than the former species : fore- 

 head with a white band, which extends from eye to 

 eye : all the upper parts of the head, the cheeks, the 

 nape, the upper half of the back and the scapulars 

 are slaty-black: the chin, and a portion of the fore 



