ENKEOCTONUS. CEPHALOPHONEUS. 



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Enneoctonus vittatus (Val.). 

 (Plate XII. fig. 19.) 



Lanius vittatus, Gadow, Cat. Birds, B. M. viii. p. 280 (1883) ; Gates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 462 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 4" Eggs 

 Lid. Birds, i. p. 311 (1889). 



Enneoctonus vittatus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1993). 



The eggs of the Bay-backed Shrike are smaller than those of 

 Lanius lahtora, Cejiluiloplioneus erythronotus, and C. nigriceps, but 

 do not otherwise differ from them. They measure from '75 to 'OS 

 in length, and from '62 to '71 in breadth. 



Sind {J. H. Gould). 



Hansi, Sth April. 



Hanai, 12th April. 



Hansi, 14th April. 



Hansi, 15th April. 



Hansi, 16th April. 



Hansi, 3rd May. 



Hansi, July. 



Hansi, August. 



Delhi, 29th .June (C. T. Bingham). 



Delhi, loth Sept. (C. T. B.). 



Delhi, 17th Sept. (C. T. B.). 



Agra, July. 



Agra, 26tli July. 



JBareiUy, 23rd May. 



Bareilly, 5th June. 



Bareilly, 15tli June. 



Bareilly, 20th June. 



Bareilly, 22nd Jime. 



Bareilly, 24th June. 



Etawah, 10th May. 



Etawah, 14th May. 



N.W. Provinces, India. 



Bengal (W. Theobald: Tristram 



Coll.). 

 Jhansi. 



Jhansi, 2nd July. 

 Jhansi, 7th July. 

 Hoshungabad, 22nd July. 



Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



Genus CEPHALOPHONEUS, Fitz. 



Cephalophoneus bucephalus {Temm. Sf ScJd.). 



(Plate XII. fig. 18.) 



Lanius bucephalus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 270 (1883) ; 



Seebohm, Birds Jajian. Emp. p. 106 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 72 (1899). 

 Cephalophoneus bucephalus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1903). 



The eggs of the BuU-headed Shrike are of a somewhat elongated, 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. They are of a greenish 



