146 MALACONOTIN.&. 
IX, p. 392; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 122; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 66. 
THE BRowN SHRIKE. 
Length, 76 to 8:1; expanse, 9°5 to 11; wing, 3°25 to 3'5 ; tail, 
3:4 to 39; bill from gape, 0°84 to 0°86; bill from front, 0°5 to 
0°58. 
Bill blackish-horny, beneath fleshy; irides brown; legs leaden- 
blue. 
Above rufous-brown with the head, tail and upper tail-coverts, 
more rufous; streak over the eye, sometimes faintly and nar- 
rowly extending over the forehead, white ; throat white ; the 
rest of the lower parts whitish, with a fulvous tinge; lores and 
ear-coverts forming a broad band through the eye, dull brown- 
black. Female and young much edged with brown bands, and 
the eye-spot paler and brown. 
The Brown Shrike occurs more or less commonly as a cold 
weather visitant throughout the district. 
Lanius isabellinus, Hemp. & Ehr. 
962.—Lanius arenarius, Bly—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. L 
p. 407; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 464; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 122. 
THE PaLE Brown SHRIKE. 
Length, 7°75 ; wing, 3°75 ; tail, 3°5. 
The race differs from cristatus by its much paler hue, being 
light ashy-brown, barely tinged with rufous on the rump only ; 
lores and superciliary streak pale; ear-coverts dark above, pale 
beneath; wings pale brown; the primaries narrowly edged, and 
the coverts and secondaries broadly with rufescent; the central 
tail-feathers brown; the rest pale rufous-brown; beneath white, 
smeared all over, but especially on the breast and flanks, with fawn 
or fulvescent ; under tail-coverts white. 
The Pale Brown Shrike is a common winter visitant to Sind and 
Guzerat. It does not occur in the Deccan, nor has it as yet been 
recorded from Central India. 
Sus-ramity, Malaconotine. 
Bill more lengthened and less compressed than in the true 
Shrikes ; wings longer, and tail shorter; tarsus short ; feet small. 
Genus, Tephrodornis, Swainson. 
Bill lengthened, widish at the base, compressed, strong, 
moderately hooked at the tip, and notched; base of bill and 
nostrils partially covered with procumbent setaceous feathers ; 
a few moderately long rictal bristles; wings moderate or long, 
slightly rounded; tail rather short, even, or slightly emarginate ; 
tarsus and toes short ; lateral toes unequal ; outer-toe the longest, 
slightly syndactyle. 
