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Rh Jhir. S. F. vi, p. 332 ; Anders. Yunnan Hxped., Aves, p. C13 ; J'<'(/(/?, Birds Ceyl. p. 433 ; Hume, Cat. no. 475 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 20 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 01 : Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 197 ; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 80.

Copaychus musicus (Rqffi.), apud Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 333 ;

Hume, Cat. no. 475 bis ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 21. Dayar or Dayal, Hind, and Beng. ; Pedda nalanchi, 8arcla-gachi, Tel. Zannid-pho, Lepch.; Thapate-livay, Burm.

Fig. 30>. Head of C. saulari?.

Coloration. Male, Head, neck, breast, and upper plumage glossy black ; abdomen, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts white ; wing black, the last two secondaries with a considerable amount of white on the outer webs, the lesser and median coverts and the outer webs of the later greater coverts also white ; the median two pairs of tail-feathers black, the others white, the fourth pair, however, varying from white with a small black tip to white with a greater or less amount of black in combination ; under wing- coverts and axillaries white, with ashy bases varying in extent. Female. Wings and tail dark brown, with white distributed as in the male ; chin, throat, breast, and sides of the neck dark grey ; forehead, lores, and cheeks mottled with white and grey ; the whole upper plumage uniform dark brown glossed with bluish ; sides of the body, vent, and under tail-coverts pale fulvescent ; middle of the abdomen whitish ; under wing-coverts white.

The young have the crown and nape ashy brown ; upper plumage dark brown, streaked or barred with rufous ; wings dark brown, with rufous tips to the lesser coverts and broad rufous margins to the quills ; the white in the wing disposed as in the adult, and the tail brown, with the white portions similarly disposed ; throat and breast greyish brown tipped with rufous ; remainder of the lower plumage white. The adult plumage is assumed almost as soon as the young bird is fully fledged.

Bill black ; mouth flesh-colour ; eyelids plumbeous ; iris hazel- brown ; legs dark plumbeous ; claws horn-colour.

Length about 8 ; tail 3'6 ; wing 3-7 ; tarsus 1-15 ; bill from gape 1.

Throughout its great range C. saularis is very constant in its type of plumage, the only variation noticeable being in the coloration of the tail and the under wing-coverts and axilhiries.

Throughout Continental India and Burma to about Moulnirin most of the birds have tho fourth pair of tail-feathers, from tin 1 outside, white with a small black tip. South of Moulmein and