596 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
The long-tailed shrikes collected in Sulu by Bourns and Worcester 
and by Guillemard were probably of this species. I have not seen a 
specimen from Sulu. 
Genus OTOMELA Bonaparte, 1853. 
The Philippine species of Otomela may be recognized by the nearly 
uniformly colored upper parts, narow, white or pale buff, superciliary 
stripe, and short tail; wing and tail about equal in length.* 
Species. 
a’, Forehead pearl-gray, shading gradually into earthy brown on the crown and 
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a*. Forehead not gray, the upper parts reddish brown. 
ob}. Upperyparts; duller’ browyais 25: 0208 6 See ae a aba eee area cristata (p. 598) 
b*. Upper parts brighter, reddish or fox-brown.................... superciliosa (p. 598) 
* Philippine specimens of this genus have usually been referred to Lanius 
(Otomela) lucionensis, but both O. cristata and O. superciliosa are credited to 
the Philippines in Sharpe’s Hand-List and for this reason they are included here. 
Having no specimens of undoubted identity I am unable to determine many of 
the specimens of shrikes in the Bureau of Science collection. Of the last two 
species mentioned I give the distribution and short descriptions on the authority 
of Dresser. 
The following paragraphs may be of use in distinguishing the three species. 
“LL, superciliosus Latham * * * has the entire upper surface very bright 
uniform rufous, a very broad frontal band, a very broad superciliary stripe, and 
the throat pure white; the inner webs of the basal parts of the primaries white 
underneath, which shows through on the upper surface of the quills at their 
insertion, almost forming a white, yet concealed alar bar; shoulder-edge and 
under shoulder-coverts pure white. 
“T, eristatus Linneus has the head, nape, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail 
rufous, but less bright and browner than in L. superciliosus. The back is colored 
with the same tint, but paler or less rufous. The chin and upper part of the throat 
are white; but the tawny hue of the breast extends higher up than in either L. 
superciliosus or in L. lucionensis ; and all the throat is usually washed with tawny. 
“The white frontal band is narrow and ill-defined; and the white supercilium is 
much less prominent than in L. superciliosus. The quills at their insertions show 
indications, although slight, of a rudimentary alar bar. The shoulder-edge and 
under shoulder-coverts are tawny. The female is colored as the male, but has 
the subocular stripe brown and not black and the sides of the breast and flanks 
more or less striated and freckled with faint brown marks. 
“L,. lucionensis Linneus has the forehead and crown delicate pale pearl-gray, 
no pure white whatever on the forehead. A narrow white supercilium commences 
above the eye, becoming somewhat broader behind, and shading off into the gray 
of the head. The occiput, nape, and back are ashy liver-brown. The rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and tail are washed with rufous, most marked on the upper tail- 
coverts; the chin and throat pure white, as in L. superciliosus ; shoulder-edge and 
under shoulder-coverts pure white; indications of a concealed white alar bar, as 
in L. ecristatus; and the female has the sexual distinguishing characters of that 
species. The almost entire absence of rufous in the plumage of the adult Philip- 
pine species suffices to distinguish it at a glance from L. cristatus and L. super- 
ciliosus.” Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 171,172. 
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