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SYLVIAD.E. 



Sp. 1. En. coronatus. Temm, Fl. Col. 113. 



En. atra, pileo cristato, ventre, uropygio, fascia, auiriun rectri- 

 cibus extimis toiis, ceteris apicihus niveis ; caitda longissimd. 



Dark-coloured Eniciirus, with the pileiis 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. (Horsf.) 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 hypochondrias are 

 elongated and delicately villous : the beak is black j 

 the feet are flesh-coloured." — Horsfield, 



Sp. 2. En. velatus. Teinm. PL Col. 160. 



Ex. supra ardosiaco-niger ; siihtus albus; mcnlo colloque antice 

 nigris ; fronte Jascid alhd; alis nigris hasi albo ; caudd nigra; 

 rectricibus externis totis reliquis basi, inlermediisque apice, 

 albis. 



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

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

 white at the base ; the tail black j 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 



