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ciliary streak diugy white or cream-colour ; head, hind neck, mantle, 

 and upper tail-coVerts showing faint dark vcrmiculations ; wing- 

 coverts and secondary quills brown, broadly edged with rufous, each 

 feather with a dark-brown submarginal line ; ear-coverts and a small 

 spot in front of the eye dark brown ; chin, throat, middle of abdo- 

 men, and the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge of wing pale 

 creamy white ; all the rest of the underparts more strongly washed 

 with creamy or even with rufous, and marked with numerous dark- 

 brown cross-vermiculations : bill brown, lighter at base. 



Ohs. I cannot but perfectly agree with what Capt. Legge, in his 

 'Birds of Ceylon,' says about the vcrmiculations on the underparts, 

 which are found on birds of different ages. He writes : — " In what 

 is probably the plumage of the second year the upper surface is a 

 ruddy brown with a tinge of grey in it, the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts rufous with blackish-brown bars, and the quills and wing- 

 coverts less conspicuously edged; the forehead is still concolorous 

 with the head, and the cresccntic margins of the lower parts less 

 pronounced and faded from off the chest. Some examples (for 

 instance one shot in May) have the forehead pale, the upper surface 

 peiTaded with greyish, and yet the under surface is well-marked with 

 the brown bars, but the sides of the chest and flanks have a rufous 

 adult look about them.'' 



" In some instances these under-surface markings do not vanish for 

 several years ; a specimen before me is fully adult on the upper 

 surface, but has most of the lower surface and even the sides of the 

 neck crossed with brown pencillings ; aud out of twenty-three, adult 

 as regards the forehead and back, nearly half of them have some few 

 bars on the flanks." 



Hah. The Grey-headed Shrike ranges from Northern China to 

 Borneo. It stays in China from April to August, and during this 

 time breeds ; for the winter it migrates southwards to the Philip- 

 pines, the Moluccas, and Borneo. It is likewise found in the 

 Andaman Islands, where it seems to be a permanent resident. 

 Occasionally it may straggle as far as Ceylon, and may certainly be 

 expected to occur in Siam and the Malayan peninsula. 



The following specimens, except /, are without any vcrmiculations 

 on the underparts : — 



a-e. Ad. S sk. China. Capt. Blakiston [C.l. 



f. Imm. S sk. China. Capt. Blakiston [C.]. 



(j,h. Ad. c? sk. Amoy, May 1881 (-R. F. D. Godman and O. Salvia, 



Stcinkoe). Esqrs. [P.]. 



i. Ad. d sk. Zebu, Nov. 20, 1873. A. Everett, Esq. [CJ. 



k, I. Ad. (S sk San Mateo, Luzon, Feb. A. Everett, Esq. [C.j. 



1877. 



All the following specimens from m to y, young and old, have more 

 or less numerous brown cross-vermiculations on their underparts : — 



m, n. Ad. st. China. J. H. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



o. S imm. sk. China. Capt. Blakiston [C.]. 



p. Ad. sk. Amoy. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



