22. LAiaus. 



261 



Collyrio teplironotiis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 392, no. 5954 ; Hume, 

 Nests <§• Egys Ind. B. i. p. 171. 



Adult. Crown of head, hind neck, and scapulars dull grey ; _ the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull orauge-buff ; wings 

 blackish brown, with no visible alar speculum, as the wing-coverts 

 completely hide the whitish basal fifth of the primaries ; the least 

 coverts broadly washed with grey like the back, tlie greater scries 

 and the quills narrowly margined with buffy white ; the edge of the 

 wing aud the outer margin of the bastard quills white ; tail-feathers 

 dull brown, the central pair darker and obscurely tipped with ful- 

 vous, this colour increasing in extent on the outer feathers, which 

 are also obscurely margined with fulvous on the outer web ; a 

 narrow frontal band, feathers round the eye, and the ear-coverts 

 black : an indistinct superciliary stripe ; cheeks, throat, and centre 

 of the body below white ; the sides of the body and under tail- 

 coverts orange, inclining to buff on the latter; thighs ashy white; 

 under wing-coverts creamy white, the lower ones inchning to 

 ashy brown ; inner surface of quills also ashy brown, inclining to 

 white near the inner webs ; bill and feet black ; iris brown. Total 

 length about 9 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4-05, tail 4-8, tarsus 1-12. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



Youmj. Similar to the adult in coloration, but duller, and wanting 

 the black frontal band; ear-coverts dark brown ; under surface 

 whitish, numerously barred with zigzag bars of ashy brown ; and 

 upper tail-coverts also barred with black-brown ; some of the 

 scapulars and most of the wing-coverts edged with reddish brown, 

 with submarginal blackish longitudinal bars. 



Hah. Himalayas, from Cashmere to Assam ; and Upper Burmah. 



a. [ (5* J ad. sk. 

 i. $ juv. sk. 



c-f. Ad. sk. 

 y, h. Imm. sk. 

 i, k. (S ad. & 



juv. sk. 

 I. Juv. sk. 

 m. Imm. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p, q, r. Ad. sk. 

 s. cj ad. sk. 



t. Skeleton of 

 trunk. 



India. 



Vallev of Astor, Cashmere, 



10,000 feet. 

 Nepal. 

 Nepal. 

 Nepal (Sodysoii). 



Sikkim, December 1874. 

 Sikkim, November 1874. 

 Bootan (Pemherfon). 

 Assam (McCleUand) 

 Upper As.sam. 

 Sawaddy, Bm'mah, Jan. 28, 



1875. 

 Nepal. 



Purchased. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 B.H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 India Museiun. 



Major J. Biddulph [C.l. 

 Major J. Biddidph [C.]. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. J. Anderson. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



29. Lanius schach. 



Lauius a-scack, Oshech, Ostind. Itesa, p. 227 (1757). 



Lanius scliach, i//(«. -S'. A', i. p. 94 (1758); Gm. S. N. i. p. 303; 

 J'ieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 737 ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 372 ; BIyth, 

 J. A. S. Beny. xv. p. 301 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 151 ; Bp. 



