1875.] TlIE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 335 



Meyen (/. c.) most positively stated that this Lu9on chiselled-billed Buceros did not belong 

 to that of Panay ; and he gave an accurate figure of the old male. 



No. 1. d, adult .... 3-25 9-25 9 Luzon. 



No. 2. c? , „ 

 No. 3. $ , „ 



No. 4. $ , juv. 



No. 5. d , „ 



No. 6. 6 , adult 



No. 7. ? , „ 



Manilla. 



„ (tail not fully grown). 



Dr. V. Martens (J. f. O. 1866, p. 18) enumerates as an additional species of Philippine 

 Hornbill an individual observed by him in the Military Library at Manilla. lie describes it as 

 being without a casque, and as having the tail long, the head crested, the bill and face black, 

 the nape pale yellowish brown, the back and wings spotted and the under surface yellowish. 

 Dr. V. Martens suggests that it may be B. giiigalensis, Shaw, and bestows no title. The 

 description above given does not agree with the Ceylon species, and was probably made from an 

 immature example of one of the foregoing species. 



LANIID^. 



LaJvIUS, Linnaeus. 

 70. * Lanius nasutus. 



Pie-(jrieche d'Antigue, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 114, pi. 70. 



Lanius nasutus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 85, no. 13 (1786), ex Sonn. 



Lanius antiguanus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 301, no. 29 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Lanius cephalomelas, Bp. Eev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 436, "Manilla;" Walden, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 70. [y^n^^fl, p. 51.] 



Hob. Zebu {Meyer) ; Panay (Soimerat). 



A single example of a black-headed Shrike, obtained in Zebu by Dr. A. B. Meyer, removes 

 all doubts as to the existence of such a form in the Philippines ; and we may further safely Tr. Z. S. ix. 

 assume that it is the same as Sonnerat's species. P" 



In India there appear to be two well-mai'ked species of black-headed Shrikes : — one, the 

 largest, with the whole back in the adult bright rufous, inhabiting Nepal, Darjeeling and 

 Assam, and named by Mr. Hodgson L. tricolor (Ind. Eev. 1837, p. 446, ex Nepal; Gray & 

 Mitch. Gen. pi. 71) ; the other, in the adult, with the upper back ashy grey, and the lower pale 

 ferruginous, inhabiting Goomsoor, Bengal, and said to extend into Arracan (L. nigriceps, Frank. ; 

 Jerd. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 17). It is true that Dr. Jerdon, who at one time maintained this view, 

 altered it (/. c.) out of deference to Mr. Blyth; but my acquaintance with the two birds bears 

 out Dr. Jerdon's original opinion. Dr. Meyer's Zebu example has the upper back ashy grey, as 

 in L. nigriceps, this colour descending much lower than in the Indian form, the uropygium and 



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