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LANIADJ5. 



Jlah. — India generally; not on tho Malabar Coast and Bengal (Jcrd.) 

 Occurs in Beloochistan, JSouth Afghanistan, Mooltan, in tbo Punjab, 

 throughout the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodbpore and 

 North Guzorat. A permanent resident in Sind. Breeds from April 

 to August, and like those of tho preceding species of the genus, tbo 

 eggs are white, speckled all over, or near the larger end with rusty. 



Lanius cristatus, Linn.; Edw. Z>. pi. 54; Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. 

 M. p. 100; Jerd. B. Ind. i. 406, No. 261 ; Str. F. vii. pp. 269-270; 

 Murray, Rdbk., Znol. ^c, Sind, p. 134. Lanius phocnicurus, Pali. 

 Walden, Ibis. 1867, pi. 5, fig. 2. Enneoctonus cristatus, Pr. B. Consp. 

 Av. p. 362. — The Brown Shrike. 



A broad band from the lores through tho eyes to tho ear-coverts, 

 dusky brown ; head, tail, and upper tail-coverts, rufous ; back rufous 

 brown ; streak over the eye white ; throat white ; rest of under surface 

 fulvous; wings dusky; the tertiaries margined rufous brown; tail 

 rufous brown. The young birds and females have tho feathers of tho 

 head, wings, and lower parts edged with brown and whitish ; bill horny 

 above, below pinkish white ; irides brown. 



Length.— S-IO inches, wing 3-50, tail 3-92, bill at front 0-50. 



Hah. — India and Ceylon, Upper Pegu, Malacca, Penang, Bengal, and 

 the Malay Peninsula generally; found in Sind, Kutch, Kattiawar and 

 Jodhpore, as a visitant in the course of its migration during September 

 and October. 



Lianius isabellinus, Hemp, and Ehr. 8ymh. Phys. 1828, Aves. fol. 

 e; Strickland, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 217; Walden, Ibis. 1867, p. 224, pi. v. 

 fig. i. Lanius arenai-ius, Bly. J. A. S. B. 1846, xv. p. 304; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 i. p. 407, No. 262; Ibis. 1872, p. 115; TFa/J^n, IZ^fs. 1867, p. 223; 

 Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Yarlcand, p. 183, pi. iii. ; Hume, Str. 

 i^. i. 174; ii. 331, vii. 210—270; Murray, Ildhlc, Zuol, <$-c., Sind, 

 p. 136. — The Desert Shrike. 



Head and back of the neck bright rufous, seasonally duller; eye- 

 streak black or brownish ; a narrow white superciliary stripe ; lores 

 whitish ; wings pale bi'own ; the primaries narrowly edged, and tho 

 coverts and secondaries broadly with rufescent; beneath white, in 

 some specimens, the young birds especially, rufous white with cres- 

 centic marks ; upper-tail coverts and tail brown with a rufous tingo 

 in some, the central tail feathers marked with irregular dusky bands ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; bill dark brown ; legs dusky. 



Length. — 7*75 inches, wing 3*75, tail 3'5. 



Uah. — Sind, Punjab, Beloochistan, S. Persia, Afghanistan, Arabia, 

 Khordafan, Turkistan, Abyssinia. In Sind it is common as a winter 

 visitant only. 



Sub-Family, MALACONOTIN^, Ca&.— Wood-Shrikes. 



Bill more lengthened and less compressed than in Lanius ; wings, 

 tail and tarsus shorter. 



