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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus CAMPOPHAGA, Vieill 
221. CAMPOPHAGA SATURATA. 
SWINHOE^S CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Volvocivora saturata, Swinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 242 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 103. 
Volvocivora intermedia, Hume, S. F. v. p. 205, viii. p. 91. Campophaga 
saturata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 66. 
Description. — Male. General colour dark slaty grey, paler below, the 
feathers of the crown with black shafts and the under tail-coverts more or 
less fringed with white ; lesser wing- coverts like the back ; remaining 
coverts and the whole wing deep glossy black; tail deep black, all the 
feathers tipped with white, broadly on the outer ones and the amount 
decreasing in extent interiorly. 
The old female does not differ from the male, except in being slightly 
paler. Until the birds get very old there are traces of a white patch on 
the fourth and fifth primaries ; but these traces eventually disappear. 
The young have the upper plumage similar to that of the adult female, 
but the back and rump are generally tinged with russet ; the ear-coverts 
have conspicuous white shaft-stripes ; the lower plumage is closely barred 
with fine lines of brown, and the portion from the breast downwards is 
russet-grey conspicuously paler than the throat and breast ; the wings are 
dark brown, each feather finely edged with grey pr greyish white ; there is 
a large patch of white on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries, which 
gradually becomes smaller and finally disappears. I am not certain whether 
young males have this white patch, but young females certainly have. 
Bill, feet and claws black ; iris hazel-brown ; eyelids grey ; inside of the 
mouth flesh-colour. 
Length 9*5 inches, tail 4*5, wing 4*8, tarsus '85, bill from gape I. The 
female is rather smaller. 
This is merely a race of the Indian C. melaschista {O. lugubris, Sund.), 
and can only be distinguished from it when adult by its slightly paler 
colour. It is hardly worthy of separation, perhaps, when adults only are 
compared, bat the differences are more striking in the immature birds. In 
young C melaschista the whole lewer plumage is dark brown, unicolorous 
from the chin to the vent ; whereas in C. saturata the lower plumage is 
iron-grey, becoming conspicuously paler on the abdomen and vent. In 
very young C. melaschista the upper plumage is barred with white ; and 
I do not think that this is ever the case with C. saturata. In a con- 
siderable series of young birds from Burmah I cannot discover a trace of 
white bars on any portion of the upper plumage. 
I have compared three of Mr. Swinhoe^s birds from Hainan with a large 
