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40. Lanius coUurioides. 



Limiiix colhirioiiJex Lesson., in Belimii. Vnr/. Iinl.-Orinit. p. "250 (18.'14) (Pegu). 

 Lttiiiiis hijpiileiicos Blyth, J. A. ti. B. xvii. pt. i. p. 249 (1848) (Tenasserim). 

 Liniiiis rnllyrioklei! Gadow, t. c. p. 289. 



Adult male and female in J'resldi/ moulted plxmage {'^(wcmhcr). — Forehoad, 

 crciwii, lores, feathers under the eye and ear-coverts deep black, shading into dark 

 grey on the hind-neck ; liack, rninp and uii]ier tail-coverts deep chestnut ; throat 

 and rest of nnder ])arts white ; wings black, the basal ]iart of the primary (jnills 

 white, forming a conspicnons speculnm ; secondaries and wing-coverts edged with 

 rnfons but}'; outer pair of tail-feathers jmro white witli black shafts, fifth pair 

 similar, but sometimes with a little black along the basal part of the shaft, f'onrth 

 ])air black with white base and tip, remaining pairs l)lack, very narrowly tijiped 

 with white. 



Total length ca. T'f) in. ; wing 3':3, tail 36, tarsus 09. 



Adult male and female in worn plumage (March). — Have the njiper ]iarts 

 altogether paler than in the above, the back, etc., being of a light rnfons chestnut. 



Younger birds. — Hesemble the adnlt above, but have the breast more or less 

 barred with dusky, and the fifth pair of tail-feathers are internally black towards 

 the e.xtremity. 



Young birds. — Have the head and nape l)rownish, the hack and rnniji rnfons, 

 all the feathers being barred with dusky ; the under parts white, barred with 

 dusky ; tlie middle tail-feathers reddisli brown, the outer pair white as in the 

 adnlt, and the fifth pair internally rufous towards the extremity. 



Ilab. Tenasserim, Shan States, Pegu, Burma, Yunnan, and Manipur. 



41. Lanius bucephalus. 



Laniiix hnrq.hiihia Temm. & Schl, Foiin. Jiqi. p. 39. PI. XIV. (184-i) (Japan); Gadow, t. c. 



p. 270. 

 Phoneiis hm-eiihiiJiia Bogd., t. c. pp. 86, 208, 217. 



Adult male in freshly moulted plumage (January). — Top of the head and 

 nape dull red, shading into greyish brown on the mantle and rest of the upper 

 parts ; a narrow band of white feathers across the base of the bill, continued over 

 the eye in a su])erciliary stri])e ; lores and ear-coverts black; chin and throat white ; 

 sides of the breast, belly and flanks bright rust-red ; middle of the breast and belly 

 and under tail-coverts whitish buff, some of the feathers of the breast bearing indistinct 

 traces of dusky bars ; wings black, basal third of the inner primary quills white, 

 forming a visible speculum ; inner secondaries and most of wing-coverts edged 

 with bufi' : tail-feathers greyish black, the outer i)airs narrowly tippeil with white. 



Total length ca. 8 in. ; wing 3'4, tail 3'5, tarsus 1. 



Adult uiale in worn plumage (May). — Has the forehead, crown and najic 

 light rufous chestnut, brighter than in the above, and the rust-colour on the sides 

 of the breast, belly, and flanks nnu^h less consjiicuons, many of the feathers of the 

 sides of the breast having faded to a dull buff. 



Adult female infresldi/ moulted plumage (December). — Differs chiefly from the 

 male in having the lores whitish, the ear-coverts rufous chestnut like the crown, 

 the back of a brown or reddish brown tint, the under parts with narrow con- 

 centric dusky bars, and the speculum on the jirimaries inconspicuous. 



