484 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds from Fno. 



[Resident. Breeding in May and June^ and laying from 

 three to four eggs.] 



41. BuRNESiA LEPTDA (Blyth) ; Sliarpe^ op. cit. vii. p. 211. 

 A very pale grey specimen with the narrow stripings of 



B. lepida, but much more ashy than any specimen in the 

 British Museum. 



[Resident. Plentiful among the small bushes. 



Breeds from April to June^ laying from five to six eggs.] 



42. Argya huttoni (Blyth) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 394. 

 Crateropus huttoni, Blanf. t. c. p. 203^ pi. xiii. 



Three specimens. They are much paler than typical 

 A. huttoni, and much less plainly streaked, besides being 

 smaller in size. 



[Resident. A^ery plentiful ; breeding throughout Api'il and 

 May to the middle of June. The usual number of eggs is 

 three. On the 19th of June, 1884, I took a nest containing 

 three fresh eggs. This is of rare occurrence, for by this time 

 most nests contain young, and many young are seen flying 

 about the bushes attended by the parent birds.] 



43. Lanius minor, Gm.; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 vol. viii. p. 235 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 137. 



No. 75. An adult and a young bird. 



[Seen from March to May, and again in August and 

 September. 



Both those sent to the Museum were shot on the 1st of 

 September, 1884.] 



44. Lanius fallax, Finsch ; Gadow, t. c. p. 247, pi. viii. 



Seems to me to come nearest to a specimen from Meso- 

 potamia, obtained by Commander Jones, and determined by 

 Dr. Gadow to be L. fallax. Of the validity of some of the 

 species of Lanius admitted by the last-named author I have 

 the highest doubts. 



[The only specimen, secured by me in September 1884, 

 unless one supplied to the Karachi Museum in the early part 

 of the year, but not identified by Mr. Murray, is of the 

 same species.] 



