Tchitrea affinis Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Bengal (1846), 15,
292. Terpsiphone affinis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879),
4, 349; Hand-List (1901), 3, 263; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds'
Eggs (1903), 3, 280; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 75.
Luzon (Cuming). Malay Peninsula, eastern Himalayas, Indo-Chinese
Provinces, Assam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo.
"Adult male.--General color pure white, with shaft-lines of black,
especially distinct on the greater coverts; quills black, externally
edged with white, the inner secondaries white, with longitudinal
black centers to the feathers; tail-feathers white, with blackish
edges and with distinct black shafts; head, sides of face, and entire
throat greenish black, without much metallic gloss; remainder of
under surface of body, including the under wing-coverts, pure white;
quills blackish below, broadly white along the inner web. Length, 411;
culmen, 19; wing, 91; tail, 132; middle tail-feathers, 330; tarsus, 15.
"Adult female.--General color orange-rufous, brown on the mantle and
scapulars; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut; wing-coverts
like the back, the greater series orange-rufous, dusky brown on the
inner webs; alula, primary-coverts, and primaries black, with a narrow
edging of orange-rufous, the secondaries more broadly margined, the
innermost being entirely orange-rufous, with longitudinal blackish
centers; crown and a moderate crest glossy steel-blue; sides of face
and a narrow collar around the hind neck and entire throat and breast
ashy gray; remainder of the under surface yellowish buff, sides of the
body washed with orange, as also the under tail-coverts, which are
slightly more rufous; under wing-coverts rufescent, whiter at base;
quills dark brown below, rufous along the inner web. Length, 198;
culmen, 22; wing, 90; tail, 105; tarsus, 15.
"Male in second plumage.--Very similar to the foregoing, but with a
longer tail, the gray on the throat and breast darker, and the white
on the belly purer and less fulvous. Length, 246; wing, 89; culmen,
22: tail, 102; middle tail-feathers, 208; tarsus, 15." (Sharpe.)
"Included in this list with some doubt on the strength of a specimen
mentioned by Hartert." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)