ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
connected with Campephagince, to which it is commonly referred. 
The structure of the beak, wings, and feet, is entirely that of the 
M use leap ince, and the shafts of the dorsal feathers are nevei 
thickened as in the Campephagince. 
<£ In the male, whole head, chin, hind neck, scapulars, lessor 
wing-covers, spurious wing, primary-covers, and upper tail-covers, 
glossy bluish black ; secondary covers, and outer half of tertials, 
white, forming a broad longitudinal stripe on the wing; quills 
black, paler towards the ends ; the fifth and sixth primary, with a 
basal interior white spot ; the three next, and all the secondaries, 
white at the base, on both webs, for one-third the length; tail 
black, the five outer pairs of rectrices largely tipped with white ; 
rump vivid orange red; breast pale blood red; belly, vent, and 
lower wing-covers, white ; beak and legs black. Length, 5.o f 
beak to front, 3J; to gape, 6; height, 1 J ; breadth, 2; wing, 
2.7; medial rectrices, 3; external, 1. 8; tarsus, 6; middle toe 
and claw, 5^ ; hind ditto, 3J. 
“ Mr. Jerdon describes the female as ashy brown where the 
male is black (except the tail, which is deep black) ; front whitish, 
rump, edges, and tips of lateral rectrices, and beneath, white, tinged 
with ashy on breast. 
“ Form slightly aberrant, the beak being rather shorter and 
more depressed than in others of the genus. The distribution of 
light and dark colours is similar to that of the other species, hut 
this one is remarkable from the wing spots and tips of rectrices 
being pure white, instead of being concolorous with the red rump 
and breast. 
This species inhabits Cawnpore (Hardwicke) ; Ghauts near 
Ajunteh, in South India (Jerdon) ; Sucktusghur, Chunar (Boys). 
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