OTOMELA. 597 
581. OTOMELA LUCIONENSIS (Linneus). 
GRAY-HEADED SHRIKE, 
Lanius lucionensis LINN&uUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 185; WALDEN, 
Trans. Zool. Soc. (1875), 9, 171, pl. 29, fig. 1; Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1883), 8, 274; WuHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 226. 
Otomela lucionensis SuarpPr, Hand-List. (1903), 4, 288; McGrecor and 
WorcrsTER, Hand-List (1906), 92. 
Ta-ga-pa-ri, Ticao; ti-cong, Cagayancillo; te-ti-bi-as, Bantayan; ti-ba-las, Siqui- 
jor; ta-rat or ca-bi-so-te, Manila. 
Agutaya (McGregor) ; Balabac (Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan 
(Steere Hap., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Hverett, McGregor) ; 
Cagayancillo (McGregor) ; (alamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Calayan 
(McGregor) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Hverett, Steere 
Exp., McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Fuga (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere Exp., 
Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Everett, Bartsch); Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon 
(Méllendorff, Meyer, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; 
Maestre de Campo. (McGregor € Worcester) ; Masbate (Steere Exp., Bourns € Wor- 
cester, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns & Worcester, 
Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead); Palawan (Whitehead, 
Everett, Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White); Panaon (Hverett) ; Panay (Steere 
Ezp., Bourns é Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns & Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp.) ; 
Sibay (McGregor & Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester) ; Siquijor (Celes- 
tino, Bourns & Worcester); Sulu (Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns & 
Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor); Verde (Mc- 
Gregor). Mongolia, northern China, Korea, Formosa, Andaman and Nicobar 
Islands, Malay Archipelago; southern India in winter. 
Adult male (Bohol, April).—Lores, a narrow frontal line, and a broad 
band through eye to side of neck black; forehead delicate pearl-gray, 
shading gradually into earthy brown on the back and becoming more 
reddish brown on the lower back and rump; chin, throat, jaw, and 
middle of abdomen white; thighs pale gray; remaining under parts buff ; 
wing-feathers blackish; primaries whitish at their bases; axiilars and 
inner edges of wing-quills white; rectrices earthy brown, narrowly tipped 
with whitish and obsoletely barred. Bill, legs, and nails black. Wing, 
88; tail, 87; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 23. 
Most of the specimens taken in the Philippines, autumn and winter, 
have the under parts whitish with varying amounts of dusky vermicula- 
tions. This plumage appears to be characteristic of both young and 
winter specimens. 
Young birds differ from the adults in the color of the upper parts, 
which are “brownish rufous, brighter on the upper tail-coverts; no gray 
on the head; loral region and a superciliary streak dingy white or cream- 
color; head, hind neck, mantle, and upper tail-coverts showing faint 
dark vermiculations; wing-coverts and secondary quills brown, broadly 
edged with rufous, each feather with a dark hrown submarginal line; 
ear-coverts and a small spot in front of the eye dark brown; chin, throat, 
middle of abdomen, and the under wing-coverts, axillars, and edge of 
