270 lANHD^. 



Oulmen. 

 in. 



Saudakan 0-8 



2 . Philippine Islands (Leyte) 07.5 



Hah. Southern Philippines, Northern Borneo, and Java. 



a. Ad. sk. East Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



6. [ c? ] ad. sk. Sandakau. Purchased. 



c. 2 ad. sk. South Leyte (Sept. 1877). Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



35. Lanius hucephalus. 



pp. 115, 450 ; Dav. ^- Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 98 (1877). 

 Emieoctonus bucephalus, Bp. C. A. i. p. 363 (1850). 

 Phoneus bucephalus, Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 167 (1876). 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape deep reddish brown, which 

 colour passes into dark grey on the mantle, scapulars, back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts ; tail slaty grey, the two central feathers 

 darker, sometimes almost black ; all the rest with small whitish or 

 fulvous tips ; least wing-coverts of the same colour as the back ; 

 the others and the secondary quills brownish black, externally 

 margined with fulvous; primary quills blackish brown, with very nar- 

 row fulvous edges ; basal half of the webs pure white, forming an 

 alar speculum, which is not entirely hidden by the greater wing- 

 coverts ; loral region and ear-coverts black ; a very distinct white 

 superciliary streak extending from the nostrils onto the hinder 

 margin of the ear-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 with a blackish patch near the edge of the wing, which is also white ; 

 chin, cheeks, throat, middle part of the breast and abdomen, and 

 the under tail-coverts creamy white ; all the rest of the under- 

 parts more or less rufous, or sometimes, like the flanks, deep reddish 

 brown ; breast and sides of neck always with dark-brown vermicu- 

 lations, which, however, become very faint in old birds ; thighs 

 greyish ; bill bluish black, paler at base ; feet and claws black- 

 brown ; " iris brown " {Capt. P. Conrad). Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0-75, wing 3-4, tail 3-65, tarsus 1. 



Adidt female. More reddish brown than the male, instead of grey; 

 the whole upper sm-face strongly washed with reddish brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts with rufous edgings and tips of this colour ; some of the 

 innermost secondary quills and the greater wing-coverts broadly 

 edged with rufous, and in some birds with a submarginal blackish 

 line ; primaries and tail brown ; undcrparts dingy whitish and less 

 rufous than the male, but with the numerous brown vermiculations 

 extending over the whole undersurface of the body ; ear-coverts 

 dark reddish brown ; the superciliary streak less distinct and more 

 creamy colour ; bill horny brown. Wing 3-3 inches, tail 3-6. 



Young birds resemble very much the adult female, but are still 

 browner above and have more numerous vermiculations below. 



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