312 Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 



procured specimens at Simla in July, 1866, in the plumage of 

 the year, so that they had evidently bred in the neighbourhood 

 of that station, although, perhaps, at a slightly lower elevation. 

 An adult procured at Umballah on the 22nd of October, 1866, 

 measured: — Length 7'5 ; wing 3'5 ; tail 3*75; tarsus '875; 

 spread foot 1"25 ; bill from front "5 in., from gape "75; extent 

 10 inches. The plumage of the young bird of the year is not de- 

 scribed by Dr. Jerdon. Col. Tytler procured the fully fledged 

 nestling at Simla early in July, 1866; and I got one in a slightly 

 more advanced stage towards the end of that month, at the same 

 place. The bill in this specimen is of a lighter hue than in the 

 adult bir3, and the legs bluish-leaden instead of black. The 

 throat is pure white, breast and underparts a duller white with 

 faint brown cross bars. The head is dull white, faintly barred 

 with brown, which extends along the back to the faintly rufous 

 upper tail-coverts, the whole barred ; wings brown, with white 

 edges to the secondaries and tertials, and the wing-coverts 

 slightly rufous and barred. Tail rufous, the outer webs of the 

 outer pair of I'cctrices white, and both these and the next two 

 or three pairs on each side white-tipped — all but the outer pair 

 having a bar or pencilling of black across both webs. 



261. Lanius cristatus. Brown Shrike. 



A specimen was procured by me at Moulmein on the 14th of 

 September, 1865, of which I subjoin the dimensions : — Length 

 8 ; wing 3*375 ; tail 3"5 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from front '5625 ; ex- 

 tent about 10 inches. Irides dark brown, legs bluish-leaden, 

 bill dark horny above, with a slightly leaden tinge below. Seve- 

 ral of these birds had evidently then but just arrived, so that a 

 reference to my previous note on the species (Ibis, 1865, p. 418) 

 shows that they arrive almost simultaneously both there and near 

 Calcutta, but apparently first in Burmah. Where, then, do they 

 come from ? {Cf. Ibis, 1867, p. 214.) 



265. Tephrodornis poNDiCERiANA. Common Wood-Shrike. 



Of the nests I before mentioned (Ibis, 1865, p. 418), one was 

 brought to me in Maunbhoom on the 27th of March, 1865, and 

 another early in April of the same year. I have since observed 

 this species at Umballah, and killed my first specimen there on 



