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If Laniiis canicejjs of Blytli is to be treated as a separate species, 

 this name should be restricted to the birds from Southern India with 

 grey scapulars. The whole colouring of the birds from this part of 

 India is clearer, and the grey extends further down the back. 



Adult. The grey colour above occupies the whole of the mantle, 

 upper back, and the scapulars ; the orange-rufous colour is re- 

 stricted to the rump and upper tail- coverts, the change from this 

 colour to the grey of the mantle taking place on the lower back ; 

 generally some of the larger scapulars are slightly washed with 

 rufous. In aU the other parts, especially in the colour of the head, 

 L. caniccjys most closely resembles L. erythronotus. 



The following are the measurements of those specimens in the 

 British Museum which I consider to be typical L. caniceps of Blyth ; 

 they do not differ from those of L. evytlironotus in any part. 



Total 

 lenffth. 



Culmeu. 



a, b. Ad. Malabar 9 abt. 0-75 



c. Ad. N.W. Ceylon 8-5 



d. (S ad. Godavery River . . 8 



Hal. Southern India and Ceylon, ranging into the Godavery 

 valley in Central India. 



a. Ad. St. India. 



h. Ad. st. India. 



c. Ad. sk. Madras {Jerdoti). 



d. Ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Deccan {Burgess), 

 g. Juv. sk. Deccan {Sgkes). 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Deccan {Sykes). 

 k. Ad. sk. Malabar. 



/. Ad. sk. Malabar. 



in. Ad. sk. Kamptee. 



?;. (S ad sk. Godavery river, Dec. 16, 



1870. 



0. Ad. sk. Deyra Doon. 



;j. 2 ad. sk. N.W. Ceylon, March 13, 



1876. 



Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 

 India Museum. 

 Gould Collection. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



Dr. R. B. Hinde [P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Capt W. V. Legge [C.]. 



32, Lanius bentet. 



Lanius bentet, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 144 (18:?1) ; Iiqffles,ihid. 



p. 304 ; Lath. Oen. Hist. ii. p. 54 ; Less. Cent. Zool. pi. 72 : Salvad. 



Uccell. Borneo, p. 158; Schaloiv, J.f. 0. 1878, p. 141 ; Nicholson, 



Ibis, 1879, p. 170. 

 Lanius pyrrhonotus, VieilJ. Gal. Ois, pi. 135. i. p. 219 (1825). 

 Lanius schach (pt.), Horsf. <^- Moore, Cat. B. M. E.I. Co. i. p. 163 



(1854). 

 Colhrio pyn-honotus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 435 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 392, no. 5952. 

 CoUyrio bentet, Bp. t. c. p. 435. 

 P Lanius suchii, Bp. 



