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BIEDS OF BRITISH BUEMAH. 
246. HEMIPUS OBSCURUS. 
HORSFIELD^S PIED SHRIKE. 
Muscicapa obscura, Horsf. Tr. Linn, Soc. xiii. p. 146. Muscicapa hirundi- 
nacea, Temm. PI. Col. 119. Myiolestes obscurus, Salvad. TJec. Born. 
p. 156. Hemipus obscurus, Bl. B. Burm. p. 122 j Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 20; 
id. Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. .305 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 209 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 90. 
Description. — Male. The wings_, tail and the whole upper plumage 
blacky except the shorter upper tail- coverts and the tips of the rump- 
feathers, which are white ; the whole lower plumage and the cheeks white^ 
the breast tinged with grey. 
The female is similar to the male^ but the black is replaced everywhere 
by brown. 
Legs and feet dark purplish brown to black ; bill black in the male, 
paler, especiaily on the lower mandible,, in the female ; irides dark brown. 
[Davison.) 
Length 5 '7 inches^ tail 2*2^ wing 2*6, tarsus '45, bill from gape '8. 
The female is of the same size. 
I insert this species on the authority of Mr. Blyth, who states that it has 
been found at Mergui in Tenasserim. Notwithstanding that Mr. Davison 
did not meet with it in that Division, it is extremely likely to creep up the 
Malay peninsula into Burmah, and I can see no reason for doubting 
Mr. Blyth^s statement. 
Horsfield^s Pied Shrike has been recorded from several localities in the 
Malay peninsula, and it occurs in Sumatra, Borneo and Java. 
The habits of this species are probably the same as those of the 
preceding bird. 
