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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
with the back, the faint barring on the rump, the very small amount of 
white on the tail^ all point to V. vidua, and for the present I propose to 
enter these as Volvocivora vidua, Hartl/^ 
I append a description of C. fimbriata from Java for comparison : — 
Male. The whole body-plumage dark slaty grey^ darkest on the crown 
and sides of the head and paler below ; lesser wing-coverts black edged 
with slaty grey ; the other wing- coverts and the quills black glossed with 
steely blue on the edges ; tail black, the outer two pairs of feathers dis- 
tinctly, the next pair very narrowly, tipped with white. 
Female. General colour above light slaty grey, rather darker on the 
head and paler on the upper tail-coverts, the feathers of which are tipped 
with white ; ear-coverts slaty grey, the shaft and portion adjacent being 
white ; the whole lower plumage greyish white, closely barred across with 
dusky ; the bars on the vent and under tail-coverts rather wider apart and 
interrupted ; lesser wing- coverts brown with broad ashy edgings ; the 
other coverts and all the quills brown with narrow edges of ashy white, 
paler on the primaries ; tail dark brown, tinged with ashy on the central 
two pairs of feathers ; the outer two pairs broadly tipped with white and 
also barred diagonally with one or two bars of dusky ; the other tail- 
feathers narrowly tipped with white. 
Length 8*5 inches, tail 3*7, wing 4, tarsus '78, bill from gape '9. The 
female is rather smaller. 
Mr. Davison procured this species at Tavoy, and it has not been found 
as yet in any other portion of Tenasserim. 
An allied species, but smaller even than C. fimbriata, is found in the 
Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, C. culminata, A. Hay. 
225. CAMPOPHAaA SYKESI. 
THE BLACK-HEADED CUCKOO-SHRIKE. 
Lalage sykesi, Strichl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, xiii. p. 36 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 
p. 369 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mm. iv. p. 89. Volvocivora sykesii, Jei^d. B. 
Ind. i. p. 414 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 179 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 123 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 91. 
Description. — Male. The head, neck, upper back, chin, throat and upper 
breast black ; lower breast and sides of the body grey ; abdomen, vent and 
lower tail- coverts white ; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump and 
upper tail-coverts grey, the tail-coverts paler margined ; median wing- 
coverts chiefly black, the tips and the terminal halves of the outer webs 
grey ; greater coverts black narrowly margined with grey ; primary- 
coverts all black ; quills black, the primaries with a large patch of white 
