592 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Subfamily LANIIN 4. 
Bill strongly compressed, hooked, and with a strong tooth\and deep 
notch on each side of upper manggple; inner webs of primaries slightly 
emarginate ; rectrices graduated, usually as long as, or longer than, wing. 
Genera. 
a’, Mantle barred! 222-50 Re ee en ee ee ee Enneoctonus (p. 592) 
a’. Mantle not barred. 
b*. Forehead black; crown dark slate or black.............. Cephalophoneus (p. 593) 
b’. Forehead gray or white in adults, more or less dull brown, earthy brown, 
or cinnamon-rufous in young birds, but never black; crown gray or 
11 0 0 | Ue ene erenTS ti ke MeeeRS WE NI OPE Te MMONS EERO et Le) oe Soeur de Otomela (p. 596) 
Genus ENNEOCTONUS Boie, 1826. 
The only species of Hnneoctonus known to occur in the Philippine 
Islands may be recognized by its barred mantle. 
577. ENNEOCTONUS TIGRINUS (Drapiez). 
TIGER SHRIKE. 
Lanius tigrinus DRaPtez, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. (1828), 13, 523; Gapow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 289; Buastrus, Jour. fiir Orn. (1890), 
139. 
Enneoctonus tigrinus SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 286; McGrecor and 
WorceEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 91. 
Sulu (Platen). Jorea, China, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 
“Adult male (summer plumage).—Crown of head, hind neck, and 
upper part of the mantle clear bluish gray; mantle, scapulars, the whole 
back and the upper tail-coverts reddish brown, each feather with several 
transverse black bars; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the rest and the 
secondary quills chestnut-brown with submarginal black lines; primary 
quills uniform brown, with no white at the base whatever; tail uniform 
chestnut-brown, with faint subterminal bars and whitish tips to the outer 
rectrices ; a frontal band, the loral and ocular region, and the ear-coverts 
deep black; all the under parts white, washed with cream-color, especially 
on the throat, breast, and edge of wings; some of the under wing-coverts 
with submarginal blackish brown bars. ‘Bill bluish black; feet pale 
leaden, with a fleshy tinge; iris blackish brown. (Swinhoe.) 
“Winter plumage.—The gray of the head and neck is washed with 
brownish; the frontal band and ear-coverts are brownish black, so that 
the head has lost its beautiful appearance; cheeks, sides of breast, and 
flanks with a few subterminal brown vermiculations; bill and feet horny 
brown. Length, 168; culmen, 19; wing, 81; tail, 76; tarsus, 22.8. 
“Adult female-—vVery similar to the adult male in winter plumage, 
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