212 Viscount Walden on the Rufous-tailed Shrikes. 



The species of the group are in great confusion ; and it is in 

 the hope of introducing a little order among them that I 

 venture upon this attempt at a monograph. It will, I fear, be 

 found far from complete ; but in the present backward state of 

 our knowledge of Eastern ornithology, more especially of the 

 geographical areas, limits of migration, and the sexual, seasonal, 

 and adolescent phases of the plumage of many Asiatic birds, it 

 is frequently impossible to arrive at final conclusions. 



1. Lanius cristatus, Linn., S. N. 1766, i. p. 134. no. 3. 

 Gm., S. N. 1788, i. p. 298. no. 3. Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 72. 

 no. 17. Jerd., Birds Ind. i. p. 406. no. 261 (ex India) ; Illust. 

 Ind. Orn. part 2 (ex Ind. merid.). Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 418. 

 no. 261 (ex Maunbhoom). 



Lanius fulvus, crisfatus, Edw., Nat. Hist. Bds. ii. p. 125. no. 54 

 (ex Bengal). 



Crested Red or Russet Butcher-bird, Edw., I. c. p. 54. pi. 54. 



Lanius hengalensis rufus, Briss., Orn. 1760, ii. p. 173. no. 13. 



Crested Red Shrike, Lath., Syn, i. p. 170. no. 18. 



Woodchat Shrike, var. A, in part. Lath., G. H. ii. p. 16. no. 7 

 (ex Calcutta). 



Rufous-tailed Shrike, Lath., /. c. p. 17. no. 9 (ex Cawnpore). 



Supercilious Shrike, var. A, Lath., /. c. p. 36, no. 34 (ex India). 



Enneoctunus cristatvs (Linn.), Bp., Consp. i. p. 362. no. 5 (ex 

 As. cent., Bengal). Horsf. & Moore, Cat. E. 1. Mus. i. p. 167. 

 no. 218 (ex Nepaul, Tenasserim). Cab., Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 72. 



Enneoctonus lucionensis (Linn.), G. R. Gray, Gen. Bds. i. p. 291. 

 no. 4, iii. App. p. 42, no. 54. Swinh., Ibis, 1864, vi. p. 420 (ex 

 Ceylon). 



Lanius phcenicurus, VaW. d [hiemalist) , $ , Sundev.,Bds. of Calc. 

 A. N. H. 1846, xviii. p. 169 (ex Calcutta). Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 1846, XV. p. 303 (ex Calcutta). 



Lanius melanotis, Cuv. Mus. Paris, ptm. Puch., Arch, du Mus. 

 vii. p. 424, Val., Diet. Sc. N. 1826, xl. p. 227 (ex Pondicherry). 



Lanius super ciliosus. Lath., Blyth, Cat. Mus. Calc. p. 152. 

 no. 874, var. cristatus (ex Bengal, Burmah). Jerd., 2nd Suppl. 

 Cat. no. 51 bis (ex Ind. merid.). Layard, A. N. H. 2nd series, 

 1854, xiii. p. 130. no. 143 (ex Ceylon). Tennant, N.H. of Ceylon, 

 p. 266. 



