METOPIDIUS. 



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and third barbed ; fourth attenuated and prolonged. — In summer : Head white, 

 with black mark on crown. Above olive. Tail black. First primary black; 

 second nearly so; third black on outer web, and a broad tip; fourth white, edged 

 and tipped black. Kashmir, India, Ceylon, Burma, S. China, Philippines, and 

 Java. Four eggs (146 x 1-12), bronze, without spots. (J. 901. B. 1429.) 



With frontal shield rounded or truncated posteriorly. Primaries not produced 



at the ends. 



Genus METOPIDIUS, 



iueTW7riSios=on the forehead. 



With frontal lappet. Short tail. First and second quills longest. Primaries 

 not produced. Wing-spur obtuse and feeble. No distinct breeding plumage, and 

 no sign of a winter plumage ; the change from the young plumage to that of 

 the adult is effected by a direct moult, without any change in the pattern of the 

 feather. 



