116 Mr. R. Swinhoe's Ornithological Notes made at Chefou. 



female, procured at Tientsin by Mr. Fleming, is rather smaller 

 than the other two, with shorter wing, a much less heavy black 

 bill, and dark brown legs ; its underparts are dingy whitish 

 without rufescence, but with plenty of dark striations and 

 mottlings, which mark also the throat and vent ; its axillaries 

 are dusky; its back is broAvner, while rufous and blackish 

 cross bars of juvenility still mark many of its scapulars and 

 upper tail-coverts. I take this to be the ordinary plumage 

 of the female. The adult male I have never had the pleasure 

 of seeing. 



44. Philippine Shrike. Lanius lucionensis, L. 



On the 31st May, in company with the specimen of Lord 

 Walden's Shrike, Mr. Campbell sent me a pair of adults of 

 this species. These were certainly in breeding-condition ; and 

 their plumage ought correspondingly to have been nuptial; 

 but they were in reality dingier than specimens shot in Amoy 

 in April. The fine cinnamon-buff of the underparts has paled 

 away ; and the back is rather greyer. Still the female shows 

 a few immature markings on her flanks and upper tail-coverts. 

 The male that I procured in Talienwan on the 26th June, 

 1860, is even dingier. I have an immature bird procured at 

 Peking in the September of the same year. This is very 

 rufous on the upper parts and tail, and bears some resem- 

 blance to the young of L. magnirostris, but may be distin- 

 guished at first sight by the existence of a dark eye-streak, 

 which is quite wanting in the other at the same stage, and 

 by the continuous striation across the breast, which is only 

 lateral in the other. I transcribe my note on a fresh Chefoo 

 adult. 



'' ^ . Length7-75. Wing3-48,first quill 11 long, second 1-23 

 longer, third and fourth '48 longer again, and slightly longer 

 than the fifth. Wing-tip 2*4 short of tail-tip, '65 longer than 

 tertiaries. Tail 3*75, outer rectrix '95 shortest, next inwards 

 •35 shorter than the others, which are subequal. Tarse in 

 front '85 ; middle toe and claw -88. Bill in front '55, from 

 gape 'Qo." 



45. Grey Mixivet. Pericrocotus cinereus, Lafresn. 

 A female of this was procured in May. 



