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[1875. 



upper tail-covcits only being ferruginous ; nor does the black on the nape extend so low down 

 as in cither of the Indian species. The Zebu bird, which is marked a male by Dr. Meyer, does 

 not appear to be fully adult ; and without an opportunity of comparing more examples, I am 

 disinclined to assert that it differs specifically from L. nigriceps. 



6 . Zebu, in April. 

 Adult. Eognathpoor, Bengal. 

 Adult. Nepal. 

 Adult. Mymensing. 

 Immature. Darjeeling. 



d , not quite adult. Base of Garos. 



71. Lanius schach. 



Lanius a-scacR; Osbeck, Ostind. Resa, p. 227, "vicinity of Canton" (1757). 

 Lanius scJiacJi, J. G. Georgi, Osbeck, Reise Ostind. China (German transl.), p. 296 (1765). 

 Lanius schach, Linn. S. N. i. p. 136, no. 14 (1766), ex Osbeck; J. E. Forster, Osbeck, Voy. 



China, East Indies (Eng. tr.) i. p. 367; ii. p. 325 (1771); Bp. Consp. i. p. 364. 



Lanivs macrourus, Cuv. Mus. Paris ; Pucheran, Archiv. Mus. vii. p. 324 (1854-55). 



Lanius chinensis, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 1, "China" (1831). 



Prince Bonaparte (1. c.) includes the Philippines within the range of this Shrike ; and upou 

 his authority (the only one, it is true, I have been able to discover) it is admitted in this list. 

 The Javan and Timor form (Lanius bentet, 'HovsL,= Lanius pyrrhonotus, Vieillot) is considerably 

 smaller, and the black on the forehead recedes more than in the Chinese species. In dimensions 

 it agrees with Lani^ts erythronotns. Vigors, from which species it can only be distinguished by 

 the greater extent of black on the forehead. In fact L. heiitet is a link between L. eri/thronotiis 

 and L. nigriceps and the other black-headed forms, Jjanins schach being a large form of 

 Tr. 7. S. is. L. erythronotus. In an early phase of plumage, but after the otherwise full plumage has been 

 adopted, L. niqriceps closely resembles L. erythronotus, the crown of the head changing to black 

 after the forehead has become black. 



72. Lanius lucionensis. (PL XXIX. fig. 1, in orig.) 



La Pie-griesche de Lm^on, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 169, no. 11, " Isle de Lugon." 



Lanius lucionensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 135, no. 10 (1766), ex Briss. ; "VValden, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 215 f; Salvador!, Atti Ac. Sc. Torino, 1868, p. 273 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 376. 



Lanius jeracojiis, De Fil. Mus. Mediol. Aves, p. 31 (1847), ^Je Salvad. I. c. 



Lanius phoenicurus, Pall., O. Finsch, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1872, p. 258, no. 16, 

 partim. 



Hah. Negros, Guimaras, and Zebu in March ; Luzon in January {Meyer). 

 Were it not that an ornithologist so distinguished as Dr. O. Finsch had quite recently (/. c.) 

 called in question the right of this Philippine Shrike to rank as a distinct species, it would liave 



t [Anted, p. 40.— Ed.] 



p. 171. 



