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phagide but, though they may in some respects approach this 
family, they seem to me to be nearer the Timaliide, in which 
I retain them. 
The bill is about one-half the length of the head, strongly hooked 
at the tip and with the margins sinuate ; the rictal bristles are 
weak. ‘The nostrils are the same as in Liothriv lutea as are also 
the wing and tail but the upper tail-coverts only reach to the 
middle of the tail. The feathers of the crown are ample but do 
not form a crest, the tarsus is strong and quite Timaliine. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A. Inner secondaries chestnut. 
@. Crown black 2s. 5.32: <5<0-s BiReay ss Shi « P. erythropterus, 3, p. 331. 
b. Crown bluish grey ........-.-- .... LP. erythropterus, 2, p. 332. 
[p. 833, 
B. Inner secondaries golden yellow...... P. eralatus eralatus, ¢, 
C. Inner secondaries tipped with chestnut P. @. eralatus, QO, p. 333. 
D. Inner secondaries bluish grey or green . 
c. Crown greenish yellow. ¥* 
a’. Nape bluish-ashy. [p- 383. 
a’, Tips of wing-coverts white ....  P. melanotis melanotis, d , 
6''. Tips of wing-coveits salmon-pink P. m. melanotis, Q, p. B54. 
b'. Nape greenish yellow. 
c''. Tips of wing-coverts white ....  P.m. intermedius, 3, p. 839. 
d'’. Tips of wing-coverts salmon-pink P.m. intermedius, 2 , p. 335. 
d. Crown blackish. [chloris, 3, p- 339. 
ce’. No white ring round eye.......- P. xanthochloris xantho- 
ad’. A white ring round eye......-- P. x. pallida, 3. 
e. Crown dark grey. 
e’. No white ring round eye ...... P. x. xanthochloris, 2 , p.836. 
f'. Awhite ringroundeye ........ Px. pathda, 2. 
f. Crown pale ash-grey..........---- P. x. occidentalis, 3, p. 336. 
g. Crown pale greenish grey ........ P.x. occidentalis, 2, p. 336. 
P. «x. pallida (David, Yunnan) is very likely to be found in 
the N. Shan States, so is included in the key. 
(354) Pteruthius erythropterus. 
Tus Rep-winerd SuRIKE-BABBLER. 
Lanius erythropterus Vigors, P. Z. 8., p. 22 (1831) (Himalaya Mt.) 
(Murree, Punjab). 
Pteruthius erythropterus. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 224. 
Vernacular names. Dao-kranji (Cachari). 
Description.—Adult male. Forehead to nape, lores, under the eye 
and ear-coverts black ; a broad white supercilium ; upper plumage 
bluish grey, some of the upper tail-coverts tipped with black ; tail 
and wing-coverts black; primaries and outer secondaries dark brown, 
edged with glossy black and tipped with white ; inner secondaries 
chestnut, lower plumage very pale greyish white, the sides of the 
throat, centre of the abdomen, vent and under wing- and tail- 
coverts pure white ; lower parts of the flanks pale rusty. 
