1867.] ON THE EUFOUS-TAILED SHEIKES. 45 



tion of L. magnirostris, which clearly refers to the Malay race, and has the right of priority. Ibis, 1867, 

 He has given a detailed description of the male and the female. If it be eventually shown that ^' " 

 Java is inhabited by an allied form yet specifically distinct from the Malay type, it will have to take 

 the title oi L. ferox, Drap., and not that of L. tigrinus of the same author. L.ferooc, Drap., is 

 described {I. c.) as measuring seven inches in length, whereas L. tigrinus, Drap., usually regarded 

 as a synonym of L. magnirostris, Less., is said by its author to measure ten inches and a half. 

 Letting alone the fact that in the same article on the Shrikes Drapiez described these two 

 birds as distinct species, the large dimensions of his L. tigrinus are sufficient to stamp the species 

 as distinct from L. ferox. At the same time I am unable, from the description, to identify 

 L. tigrinus ; it is possibly a young L. aistatus, Linn., from the continent. Bonaparte (I. c.) 

 makes tigrinus the male, and ferox the female. But the sexes in the Malay bii'd are of equal 

 dimensions, and no true Lanius is known in which there is a difference of three and a half 

 inches between the sexes. The description of L. ferox, taken along with its small size, clearly 

 refers to the female or young male of the Malay bird, or, if it does there occur, to its Java 

 representative. 



Lanius crassirostris, Kuhl, is introduced, without description, in the ' Conspectus ' as a 

 distinct species from Java. Three years later the Prince fully described the male and female in 

 his ' Monographie des Laniens ; ' and the specific characters there given apply in every respect to 

 the Malay bird. Moreover, although permitting Kuhl's manuscript title to be retained, the 

 Prince identified his species with L. magnirostris. Less., L. ferox and L. tigrinus, Drap., 

 L. strigattis, Eyton, and L. crassirostris, v. Hasselt, all titles possessing priority over the 

 designation adopted by the Prince*. The L. crassirostris (v. Hasselt) of Dr. Cabanis, by the p.'223. ' 

 description given in the footnote (I. c), is evidently either the Malay species or else the possible 

 but improbable Javan form. 



Dimensions. 



6. Lanius schwaotiei, Bp., Consp. 1850, i. p. 363. sp. 7 (ex Borneo). V. Pelzeln, Nov. 

 Keise, Zool. Th. i. p. 48 (ex Banjermassing). 



Otomela schwaneri, Bp., Eev. de Zool. 1853, p. 437. sp. 30. 



Described from specimens ia the Leyden Museum as resembling L. superciliosus, Lath., but 

 as being scarcely so rufous, and as wanting the white superciliary streak. I am unacquainted with 

 the species. A specimen of a female was obtained by the ' Novara ' expedition, which Von 



* The carelessness of this great ornithologist is curiously illustrated in his Monograph by the notes of exclamation he 

 inserts after quoting Dr. Cabanis. In the ' lluseum Heineanum ' that author included the rufous-tailed Shrikes in Boie's 

 genus Enneoctomis. This excites the Prince's astonishment, and he gives expression to his amazement by his usual notes 

 of exclamation. Yet in the ' Conspectus,' published at about the same time, it will be seen that the Prince himself 

 included all the rufous Shrikes under Enneoctonus. 



