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PASSERES. 



76. LANIUS BUCEPHALUS. 

 (BULL-HEADED SHRIKE.) 



Lanius bticephaltis, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 39 (1847) 



The Bull-licadcd Shrike has the head and nape rufous, and the tail 

 for tlic most part grey. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 1-i. 



The Bull-headed Shrike is a very common resident in Southern 

 Japan, but to Yczzo it is only a summer visitor. There is an 

 example in the Swinhoc collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 450) ; and there are eight examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. I have three examples collected by Mr. Heywood 

 Jones on Fuji-yama ; and Mr. Ringer has procured it at Nagasaki, 

 and has presented examples to the Norwich Museum from that 

 locality. 



The Bull-headed Shrike breeds in the valley of the L^ssuri (Tac- 

 zanowski, Journ. Orn. 187G, p. 197), as well as in Japan and North 

 China, and winters in South China. 



Eggs in the Pryer collection resemble blue varieties of eggs of the 

 "Woodchat. The nest is described as made of twigs and dead grass, 

 lined with finest grass (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 1 IG). 



77. PERICROCOTUS CINEREUS. 

 (SIBERIAN MINIVET.) 

 Pericrocotua cinerens, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 94. 



The Siberian Minivet is grey above and white below. The forc- 

 licad is white, the crown and nape black, and the wings and tail are 

 partly black and partly white. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Asia, ii. pi. 11. 



It is rather remarkable that the Siberian Minivet has not been 

 recorded from Yczzo. I have an example collected by Mr. Ilcywood 

 Jones on Fuji-yama, and in the Pryer collection are five examples 

 from the same locality. 



This species also breeds in Manchuria, w hence examples have been 

 sent by Dybowski from tlic mouth of the Ussuri River ; and passes 

 through China on migration to winter in the Philij)pine Islands, 

 Mornco, Sumatra, and tlic Malay Peninsula. 



