CEPHALOPHONEUS. 595 



Adult. — Entire top and sides of head, hind neck, and sides of neck 

 black; mantle light gray shading into ocherous buff on scapulars, back, 

 rump and tail-coverts ; under parts white ; sides and flanks ocherous buff ; 

 crissum light buff; thighs white; wings and tail black; inner webs of 

 wing-quills edged with white; fifth to eighth primaries with a small 

 white spot near base of outer webs ; inner secondaries more or less edged 

 and tipped with pale buff or white; edge of wing, of first alula quill, 

 and of first and second primaries white; rectrices narrowly tipped with 

 pale buff or white, two outermost pairs edged with pale buff or white; 

 all the rectrices fringed with pale buff at base. Iris brown; bill, legs, 

 and nails black. Length, 240 to 245. A male from Siquijor measures : 

 Wing, 88; tail, 125; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 

 26. A female, wing, 88; tail, 124; culmen from base, 18; bill from 

 nostril, 12 ; tarsus, 20. 



"Quite common in some localities, especially in Siquijor, but less 

 abundant than 0. lucionensis. Habits the same, and frequents precisely 

 the same localities. Three males from Mindanao average : Length, 240 ; 

 wing, 88; tail, 120; culmen, 21; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 23. 

 Two females from Culion, length, 228; wing, 87; tail, 113; culmen, 

 20 ; tarsus, 25 ; middle toe with claw, 23, Iris dark brown to black," 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



580. CEPHALOPHONEUS SULUENSIS Mearns. 



SULU SHRIKE. 



Lanius cephalomelas Guillemakd, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 257. 



Lanius nasutus Wobcestee and Bourxs, I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1898), 20, 



5G1, no. 391 (part). 

 Cephalophoneus nasutus Shakpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 287 (part). 

 Cephalophonetis suluensis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 



86; McGeegob and Worcester, Hand-List (190G), 92. 



Sulu {Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester, Mearns.) 



Adult male. — "Whole top [of head] and sides of neck, and hind neck 

 black; mantle gray (No. 10 Ridgway), fading to pale cream-buff on back; 

 scapulars pale cream-buff, broadly bordered with Avhite; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts pinkish buff; primaries black with an exposed spot of white, 

 formed by white bands crossing the external webs of third to seventh 

 primaries opposite the end of the alula; secondaries black, tipped and 

 edged externally with white; tail black, with outer feathers gray at 

 base, tipped with grayish white; chin, throat, breast, thighs, axillars, 

 and lining of wings pure white; side buff; abdomen pinkish vinaceous; 

 under tail-coverts buffy white. Length (of skin), 240; wing, 95; tail, 

 135; culmen, 17; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 8.7; tarsus, 28, 



"In size and color pattern this species closely resembles Lanius nasutus 

 Scopoli from which it may be distinguished by the pale color of the 

 scapulars, back, and rump, as well as by the pinkish vinaceous color of 

 the abdomen," (Mearns.) 



