CEPHALOPHONEUS. 595 
Adult.—Entire top and sides of head, hind neck, and sides of neck 
black; mantle light gray shading into ocherous buff on seapulars, back, 
rump and tail-coverts ;, under parts white; sides and flanks ocherous puff ; 
crissum light buff; thighs white; wings and tail black; inner webs of 
wing-quills edged with white; fifth to eighth primaries with a small 
white spot near base of outer webs; inner secondaries more or less edged 
and tipped with pale buff or white; edge of wing, of first alula quill, 
and of first and second primaries white; rectrices narrowly tipped with 
pale buff or white, two outermost pairs edged with pale buff or white; 
all the rectrices fringed with pale buff at base. Iris brown; bill, legs, 
and nails black. Length, 240 to 245. A male from Siquijor measures: 
Wing, 88; tail, 125; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 
26. A female, wing, 88; tail, 124; culmen from base, 18; bill from 
nostril, 12; tarsus, 26. 
“Quite common in some localities, especially in Siquijor, but less 
abundant than O. lucionensis. Habits the same, and frequents precisely 
the same localities. Three males from Mindanao average: Length, 240; 
wing, 88; tail, 120; culmen, 21; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 23. 
Two females from Culion, length, 228; wing, 87; tail, 113; culmen, 
20; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 23. Iris. dark brown to black.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
580. CEPHALOPHONEUS SULUENSIS Mearns. 
SULU SHRIKE, 
Lanius cephalomelas GUILLEMARD, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1885), 257. 
Lanius nasutus WORCESTER and Bourns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1898), 20, 
561, no. 391 (part). 
Cephalophoneus nasutus SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 287 (part). 
Cephalophoneus suluensis MEARNS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 
86; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 92. 
Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester, Mearns.) 
Adult male-—“Whole top [of head] and sides of neck, and hind neck 
black; mantle gray (No. 10 Ridgway), fading to pale cream-buff on back; 
scapulars pale cream-buff, broadly bordered with white; ramp and upper 
tail-coverts pinkish buff; primaries black with an exposed spot of white, 
formed by white bands crossing the external webs of third to seventh 
primaries opposite the end of the alula; secondaries black, tipped and 
edged externally with white; tail black, with outer feathers gray at 
base, tipped with grayish white; chin, throat, breast, thighs, ayillars, 
and lining of wings pure white; side buff; abdomen pinkish vinaceous; 
under tail-coverts buffy white. Length (of skin), 240; wing, 95; tail, 
135; culmen, 17; depth of bill at angle of gonys, 8.7; tarsus, 28. 
“Tn size and color pattern this species closely resembles Lanius nasutus 
Scopoli from which it may be distinguished by the pale color of the 
scapulars, back, and rump, as well as by the pinkish vinaceous color of 
the abdomen.” (Mearns.) 
