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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
wings are ashy brown^ all the feathers edged with grey ; there is a white 
patch on the primaries ; the tail is very dark brown^ the centre pair of 
feathers nearly wholly ashy, and the white tips are of the same extent as 
in the male. One female has lost all the bars on the vent and under tail- 
coverts ; and on the whole I am inclined to think that the female, when 
old, is similar to the male. 
The young are probably like the female as described above, but when 
very young may probably be barred above ; but I have never met with 
quite young birds. 
Bill and legs black ; iris hazel- or reddish-brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; 
inside of the mouth flesh-colour ; claws horn- colour. 
Length 9 inches, tail 4'3, wing 4*3, tarsus '9, bill from gape '9. The 
female is smaller. 
Blyth''s Cuckoo- Shrike is spread over the whole of Pegu, but is com- 
moner in the northern portions than elsewhere. Mr. Blyth states that it 
is common in Arrakan. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee, 
and Mr. Davison found it in Tenasserim as far south as Moulmein. 
I cannot discover that any of Mr. Swinhoe^s specimens now in Mr. 
Seebohm^s collection are C. melanoptera, as stated by Mr. Sharpe. Dr. 
Tiraud, however, gives it from Cochin China ; and it may probably occur 
in China. 
223. CAMPOPHAaA NEGLECTA. 
DAVISON^S CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Volvocivora neglecta, Hume, S. F. v. p. 203, viii. p. 91. Campophaga neglecta, 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 68. Campophaga polioptera, Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. iv. p. 69, pi. ii. 
Description. — Male. Precisely similar to the male of C. melanoptera, but 
with the grey a shade darker, especially on the head ; a patch of white on 
the primaries. 
The female is also precisely similar to the female of C. melanoptera, and 
all that I have said about the female and young of that species applies 
equally to those of this species. Mr. Hume, however, states that two old 
females were exactly similar to the old male, which he describes in detail. 
If these females were correctly sexed, it is conclusively proved that both 
sexes, when adult, are alike ; and the same inference may safely be drawn 
regarding C. melanoptera. 
Length 8 inches, tail 3*5, wing 4, tarsus '75, bill from gape '8. The 
female is rather smaller. 
I have examined the types of C. polioptera in the British Museum, and 
find them to be females of tlie present species, 
