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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Female. Forehead, lores and round the eye ferruginous ; upper plumage, 
sides of head and neck olive-brown; wings and tail rusty brown; lower plum- 
age ashy brown, tinged with rufous on the under tail-coverts and flanks. 
The young males are like the females at first; the lores soon change to black 
and the white supercilium is acquired before any blue feathers appear. 
Bill black, legs pale brownish. Length 5*25 inches, wing 2*6, tail 1*75, 
tarsus 1'25, bill at front -62. {Jerdon.) 
The White-browed Short-wing was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
in Karennee, at an elevation of 5000 feet. 
It has been observed in Munipoor and the Khasia hills, and, according to 
Dr. Jerdon, it is found in Nipal and Sikhim. Little is known of its habits. 
Mr. Hodgson describes the nest as made of moss, globular in shape and 
rather bulky ; it is placed about one foot from the ground, amongst grass 
and creeping plants at the base of trunks of trees, The eggs are white. 
Genus COPSYCHUS, Wagler. 
19. COPSYCHUS SAULAEIS, 
THE INDIAN MAGPIE-ROBIN. 
Gracula saularis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 165, Copsychus saularis, Jerd. B. Ind, 
ii. p. 114 ; Hmne, Nests and Eggs, p. 303 ; Hume ^ Henders. Lah. to Yark. 
p. 202; Hume, S. F. ii. p. 230, iii. p. 133; Bl. B. Burm. p. 100; Bav. et 
Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 174 ; Oates, 8. F. v. p. 157 ; Hume ^ Bav. S. F. vi. p. 332 ; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 613 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 433 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 99. 
Description. — Male. The whole head, neck, breast and upper plumage 
glossy black ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent and under tail-coverts 
white; wing black, the last two secondaries chiefly white on the outer 
webs, the lesser and median coverts and the outer webs of the later greater 
coverts also white ; the central two pairs of tail-feathers black, the 
others white, the fourth pair from the outside being usually black at the 
base, and the margins also black ; the amount of white and black on the 
third and fourth pairs varies much in different individuals ; under wdng- 
co verts and axillaries pare white. 
The female has the tail and wings as in the male, but browner ; chin, 
throat, sides of the neck and the breast dark grey ; forehead, lores and 
cheeks mottled white and grey ; the whole upper plumage uniform dark 
brown, glossed with bluish ; sides of body, vent and under tail-coverts 
pale fulvescent ; centre of the abdomen whitish ; under wing- coverts white. 
