148 CAMPEPHAGINE.’ 
Hemipus picatus, Sykes. 
267.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 412; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 393. 
THE LitTLE Prep SHRIKE. 
Length, 5:5; expanse, 76; wing, 23 to 2°5; tail, 23 to 2:5; 
tarsus, 0°5 ; bill at front, 0-4; bill from gape, 0°7. 
Bill black ; irides hazel ; legs plumbeous-brown. 
Male, above black glossed, less so on the back and scapulars, 
with a white nuchal collar and white ramp; band on the wings 
white; tail with the lateral feathers tipped with white, more 
broadly so on the outermost feathers ; beneath white, tinged with 
reddish-ashy, purer white on the throat, vent, and under tail- 
coverts. 
The female differs in having the upper parts dull sooty brown- 
black. 
Within our limits the Little Pied Shrike only occurs in various 
parts of the Deccan and South Mahratta country. I cannot de 
better than reproduce, 7m extenso, what Major Butler has written 
concerning its distribution. He says :— 
“Locally not uncommon along the Sahyadri Range. Mr. 
Fairbank obtained it at Nagar ; Mr. Laird in the jungles south- 
west of Belgaum ; Mr. Crawford at Savantwadi; and Mr. Vidal 
mentions it from the south of Ratnagiri; outside of the forests 
tracts it probably does not occur.” 
Sub-FAMiLy, Campephagine. 
Bill of moderate length, or rather short, rather deep vertically, 
broadish at base; culmen arched or curved; rictal bristles few, 
feeble; nostrils basal, in a fossa, partially covered by short plu- 
mules; wings of moderate length ; third and fourth or fourth and 
fifth quills sub-equal and longest; tail rather long, rounded, or 
graduated ; feathers of the back and rump often rigid; tarsus 
short ; feet weak or moderate. 
GeENus, Volvocivora, Hodgson. 
Bill rather short, broadish at base, compressed at tip, where 
bent down and notched; culmen scarcely keeled; rictal bristles 
almost wanting; nostrils basal, oval, partly concealed by tufts ; 
wings rather long; third and fourth quills equal and longest ; tail 
moderate or long, rounded ; upper tail-coverts long; tarsus short ; 
feet short ; outer-toe slightly longer than the inner; claws small, 
slightly curved. 
Volvocivora sykesi, Strick. 
268.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 414; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 464; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 393; Lalage sykesi, Strick.; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 65, 
