592 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Subfamily LAN II N^^. 



Bill strongly compressed, hooked, and with a strong tooth and deep 

 notch on each side of upper mandible; inner webs of primaries slightly 

 emarginate; rectrices graduated, usually as long as, or longer than, wing. 



Genera. 



o\ Mantle barred Enneoctonus (p. 592) 



a^ Mantle not barred. 



6\ Forehead black; crown dark slate or black Cephalophoneus (p. 593) 



6'. Forehead gray or white in adults, more or less dull brown, earthy brown, 

 or cinnamon-rufous in young birds, but never black; crown gray or 

 brown Otomela (p. 596) 



Genus ENNEOCTONUS Boie, 1826. 



The only species of Enneoctonus known to occur in the Philippine 

 Islands may be recognized by its barred mantle. 



577. ENNEOCTONUS TIGRINUS (Drapiez). 

 TIGEB SHRIKE. 



Lanius tigrinus Drapiez, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. (1828), 13, 523; Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 289; Blasius, Jour, fur Orn. (1890), 

 139. 



Enneoctonus tigrinus Shakpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 286; McGkegob and 

 WoRCESTEK, Hand-List (1906), 91. 



Sulu (Platen). Korea, China, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



"Adult male {summer plumage). — Crown of head, hind neck, and 

 upper part of the mantle clear bluish gray ; mantle, scapulars, the whole 

 back and the upper tail-coverts reddish brown, each feather with several 

 transverse black bars; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the rest and the 

 secondary quills chestnut-brown with submarginal black lines; primary 

 quills uniform brown, with no white at the base whatever; tail uniform 

 chestnut-brown, with faint subterminal bars and whitish tips to the outer 

 rectrices ; a frontal band, the loral and ocular region, and the ear-coverts 

 deep black ; all the under parts white, washed with cream-color, especially 

 on the throat, breast, and edge of wings; some of the under wing-coverts 

 with submarginal blackish brown bars. 'Bill bluish black; feet pale 

 leaden, with a fleshy tinge; iris blackish brown.' (Swinhoe.) 



"Winter plumage. — The gray of the head and neck is washed with 

 brownish; the frontal band and ear-coverts are brownish black, so that 

 the head has lost its beautiful appearance; cheeks, sides of breast, and 

 flanks with a few subterminal brown vermiculations ; bill and feet homy 

 brown. Length, 168; culmen, 19; wing, 81; tail, 76; tarsus, 22.8. 



"Adult female. — Very similar to the adult male in winter plumage, 



