226 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Amoy Ornithology. 



gined with light fulvous. 1st primary very short, the 2nd equal 

 to the 5th, and a little shorter than the 3rd and 4th, which are 

 coequal and longest ; the 5th but a trifle shorter than the 3rd and 

 4th, and longer than the 2nd. The tail is moderate, graduated ; 

 the wings are lengthened ; the bill moderate ; the under tail- 

 coverts extend to fully half the length of the tail ; the tarsus 

 and feet are powerful. Arabian specimens will have to be com- 

 pared ; but I have little doubt that this Scinde individual will 

 prove to be a mature male of L. isabellinus, H. & E. 



Dimensions. 

 Long. Rostr. Al. Caud. Tars. 

 Ex Scinde. ... -43 3-87 3-62 -87 



In a note (Rev. de Zool. 1853, p. 437), while failing to 

 identify it, and without mentioning its origin, Bonaparte has 

 described a rufous-tailed Shrike under the i\t\eoi Lanius jeraco- 

 pis, de Filippi. I have been unable to trace the species, but the 

 characters given are those we find in young males of L. superci- 

 liosus, Lath., ex Malacca. 



The following table represents the geographical limits of each 

 species of the group as far as is at present known : — 



1. Lanius cristatus, Linn. Plains of India, Ceylon, Nipaul, 



Assam, Bootan, Arakan, Tenasserim. 



2. L. lucionensis, Linn. Luzon, Formosa, China, Andamans, 



Nicobars. 



3. L.pli(£7ticurus, Pall. ap. Schrenck. Amur, North China, 



North-east Siberia, Japan. 



4. L. super ciliosus, Lath. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 



5. L. magnirostris, Less. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 



6. L. schwaneri, Bp. Borneo. 



7. L. arenarius, Blyth. Punjab, Upper Scinde, South-west 



Afghanistan. 



8. L. anderssoni (Strickl.). Damaraland. 



XIII. — Jottings on Birds from my Amoy Journal. By Robert 

 Swinhoe, Her Majesty's Consul, F.Z.S. &c. 



1866, May 3rd. — I procured from a fisherman an unusually 

 white Albatros [Diomedea brachyura), which on dissection 



