ENNEOCTONUS. — CEPHALOPHONEUS. 



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Enneoctoims vittatus {Vol.). 

 (Plate XII. fig. 19.) 



Lanins vittatus, Gadow, Cat. Birds, B. M. viii. p. 280 (1883) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 462 (1889) ; id. ed. mime, Nests fy Eggs 

 hid. Birds, i. p. 311 (1889). 



Enneoctonus vittatus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1993). 



The eggs of the Bay-backed Shrike are smaller than those of 

 Lanius lahtora, Cephaloplioneus erythronotus, and G. nigriceps, but 

 do not otherwise differ from them. They measure from '75 to -95 

 in length, and from "62 to *71 in breadth. 



2. Sind {J. H. Gould). 



2. Hansi, 5th April. 



2. Hansi, 12th April. 

 4. Hansi, 14th April. 



3. Hansi, 15th April. 



4. Hansi, 16th April. 



2. Hansi, 3rd May. 



3. Hansi, July. 



3. Hansi, August. 



2. Delhi, 29th June ( C. T. Bingham) . 



3. Delhi, 15th Sept. (C. T. B.). 



1. Delhi, 17th Sept. (C. T. B.). 



3. Agra, July. 



2. Agra, 26th July. 



2. Bareilly, 23rd May. 



1. Bareilly, 5th June. 



4. Bareilly, 15th June. 



2. Bareilly, 20th June. 



1. Bareillv, 22nd June. 



2. Bareillv, 24th June. 

 1. Etawah, 10th May. 



1. Etawah, 14th May. 



7. N.W. Provinces, India. 



3. Bengal ( W. Theobald : Tristram 



Coll.). 



2. Jhansi. 



3. Jhansi, 2nd July. 



4. Jhansi, 7th July. 



2. Hoshungahad, 22nd July. 



Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

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 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

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Genus CEPHALOPHONEUS, Fitz. 



Cephaloplioneus bucephalus (Temm. &[ ScJil.). 



(Plate XII. fig. 18.) 



Lanius bucephalus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 270 (1883) ; 



Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 106 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



p. 72 (1899). 

 Cephalophoneus bucephalus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1903). 



The eggs of the Bull-headed Shrike are of a somewhat elongated, 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. They are of a greenish 



