216 Viscount Walden on the Rufous-tailed Shrikes. 



species which inhabits the Andaman and Nicobar islands to the 

 Philippine bird. But from not being acquainted with specimens 

 from those localities_, I am unable to confirm the accuracy of an 

 identification which, if correct, is of considerable interest. 



Under the head of L. phoenicurus, Pall., it will be seen that 

 there is some reason for believing that Pallas's bird belongs to 

 this species. 



Dimensions. 

 Long. Rostr. Al. Caud. Tars. 

 Ex China -43 356 350 -87 



3. Lanius phcenicurus, Pall., It. 1776, iii. p. 693. no. 6 (ex 

 Dauria) ; Voy. (Paris) 1793, iv. p. 322, App. p. 665.no. 6; Zoogr. 

 Eoss.-As. 1831, i. p. 405, no. 59. Lath., Syn. i. p. 116. no. 14 ; 

 Ind. Orn. i. 7]. no. 14. Gm,, S. N. ed. xiii. i. p. 309. no. 15. 

 Schrenck, Am. Reise, 1860, i. p. 384. no. 109 (ex Amur, N. 

 China). Middend., Sib. Reise, ii. Th. ii. p. 188. no. 107 (ex 

 Udskoi Ostrog). Radde, Reise, S. v. 0. Sib. 1863, ii. p. 277. 

 no. 150. Sundev., Physio. Sails. Tidsk. 1837-38, p. 64 (A. N. 

 H. 1846, xviii. p. 169) c?"perfecte coloratus" (exMus. Stockh. 

 patrise incertse ?); K. S. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1840, p. 36. Blasius, 

 Naumannia, 1858, p. 310. no. 8 (ex Heligoland); Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 66.no. 8. Gatke, Naumannia, 1858, p. 425 (ex Heligoland). 



Enneodonus phoenicurus (Pall.), G. R.Gray, Gen. Bds. i. p. 291, 

 no. 4. Bp., Consp. i. p. 362. no. 4. Cab., Mus. Hein. i. Th. 

 p. 72. no. 414 (?) (ex Asia). 



Otomela phoenicura (Gm. ex Pall.), Bp., Rev. de Zool. 1853, 

 p. 436. sp. 25. 



(Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Pallas, who only obtained one specimen, and only observed 

 the species on that occasion, procured his type early in the 

 month of June, amongst the rocks of the mountain of Adon- 

 Scholo, near to the river Onon in Dauria. Before he had ac- 

 curately noted its characters the specimen decayed. We may 

 infer from his account that the following characters given by 

 him (/. c.) were drawn up from memory : — The body above 

 rufescent-grey ; a black band through the eyes; underneath 

 yellowish-white ; a long tail rounded at the end, the whole of 



