FROM WESTERN SUMATRA. 53 



specimen the gray color ou the back is darker , and tail- 

 coverts and tail are entirely black like in Javan birds. 



If the mentioned characters might prove to hold good 

 in more material than I have at my disposal , I would 

 propose to separate the Bornean specimens under the name 

 of T. frenatus , under which name Temminck separated 

 the mentioned three specimens from Borneo from those 

 from Java and Sumatra a* a new species , though this 

 latter, as so many others, were never published. 



The only Malaccan specimen in our Museum (from Perak, 

 Dr. Hagen) is a female or young male , but with regard to 

 the size of the bill it belongs to the Sumatran form. 



99. Lanixis heiitet. 



Lanius hentei, Horsf. t. c. p. 144; — Raffl. t. c. p. 304; — Salvad. 

 Ucc. di Borneo, p. 158 (1874); id. Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 210 

 (1879); — Snelleman, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 43 (1884). 



6 specimens. 

 » Iris chocolate brown , bill and feet black. Native name : 

 -Smras." 



100. Lanius tig rimes. 



Lanius ttgrmus , Drap. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. XIII. p. 523 (1828); 



— Gadow , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. VIII. p. 289. 

 Lanius magnirostris , Less. Voy. Belang., et Compl. Buff. II. p. 415 



(1834); — Tweedd. Ibis 1867, p. 220 , pi. 6 , fig. 1 & 2; id. 1. c. 



1869, p. 242. 

 Enneoctonus crassirostris (Kuhl) , Bp. Consp. Av. I. p. 862 (1850). 



4 specimens (ad. cT, and jun. both sexes). 

 ))Iris ?, bill black , bluish gray at base , feet gray. Native 

 name Siareh.'^ 



An examination of the specimens in our Museum 

 shows that there is only one species of thick-billed rufous- 

 tailed Shrikes , which we have represented by one speci- 

 men from Singapore , seven from Sumatra , five from Banka , 

 one from Borneo (S. Muller) and five from Java (Kuhl , 

 Blume, Junghuhn and others). A peculiarity of this species 

 is that young (brown-headed) birds have no black stripe 



Notes from the Leyclen ÜMuseum, "Vol. IX. 



