22. LANiTjs. 275 



335, 1871, p. 370; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 434, 1874, p. 199; 



Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. 1875, p. 171, pi. 29. %. 1 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, 



pp. 692 & 758 ; S/iarpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 19, 1876, p. 43 : Dav. ^ 



Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 99 (1877) ; Lee/ffe, B. Ceylon, p. 378 (1879) ; 



Oates, B. Brit. Bwm. p. 251 (1883). 

 Laniiis plirenicurus (wow Pall.), Meijen, Act. Acad. Cces. Leopold. 



xvi. p. 74 (1834) (teste Schalow) ; id. Peise um d. Erde, p. 198 



{ex Philippin. ins., teste ScJudow). 

 Otomela schwaneri, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 437. 

 Eniieoctonus schwaneri, Bp. C. A. i. p. 363. 

 Lanius jeracopsis, De Fit. Mtts. llediol. p. 31 ; Bj). Pev. Zool. 1853, 



p. 437, note ; Salvad. Atti Ace. Sc. Torino, 1868, p. 272. 

 Lanius schwaneri, Walden, Ibis, 1867, p. 223; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 393, no. 6974; Siui7ih. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 376. 

 Otomela liicionensis, Schalow, J.f. O. 1875, p. 137. 



Adult male in breeding -plumage (Southeru China). Back, scapu- 

 lars, mantle, and sides of neck earthj^ brown slightly shaded Math 

 grey, which colour on the hind neck gets gradually lighter till, on 

 the frontal half of the head, it is replaced by greyish white ; it is 

 still lighter near the base of the bill and the immediate superciliary 

 region ; loral space, a streak under and a narrow one oyer the eye, 

 and the eai'-covcrts are brownish black ; on the lower back and 

 rump the earthy colour passes gradually into rusty brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts rufous-brown ; tail uniformly light brown, with pale 

 tips to the outer pairs ; wing-coverts and secondaries brown, with 

 fulvous edgings to their outer webs ; primary quills uniform dark 

 brown, with no trace of a white alar specidum, but at the extreme 

 base and on the basal third of the inner web the quills are whitish ; 

 wings below silvery grey ; chin, cheeks, and throat white ; all the 

 rest of the uudcrparts, including the under tail-coverts and under 

 wing-coverts, I'ufous buff, middle of abdomen generally a little paler ; 

 edge of wing white ; bill blue-black ; feet blackish. 



The adult female differs from the male iu having the ear-coverts 

 and lores more brownish ; the whitish grey of the forehead is less 

 developed, and the underparts of the body are paler. 



This is the colour of the birds found in China during the mouth of 

 April till the beginning of August. All the other specimens from tlie 

 northern coast of Borneo and from the Philippine Islands, where the 

 bird is found from autumn till spring, have the general colour above 

 much dingier, that is to say more tinged with greyish, the secondaries 

 edged with faded whitish instead of fulvous, and the underparts, 

 including the under wing-coverts, dull white, washed with buff on 

 the flanks and sides of the breast, whilst the breast and abdomen 

 show a faint creamy tinge. The females, when in winter dress, have 

 nearly lost their greyish coloration of tlie head and have quite lost 

 the dark loral spot, the underparts being stiU paler than in the male, 

 but showing faint dark-brown cross-vermiculations on the sides of the 

 neck, flanks, and upper tail-coverts. " Iris dark chocolate ; bill dark 

 purplish brown ; feet bluish lead-colour." 



Young. AH the upper parts are brownish rufous, brighter on the 

 uppci' tail-coverts ; no grey on the head ; loral region and a super- 



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