214 Mr. C. Bodeii Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



2 ? . Tachin, Central Siam. Oct. 1916. 



Tail 162 (abraded), 140 (in moult; ; W. 93'5, 96-5. 



This handsome Shrike was very common in the flat rice- 

 lands of Central Siam, where numbers were observed 

 perciied on bushes, poles, and the telegraph-wires along 

 the railway. 



-|- 111. Lanius collurioides Lesson. 



Grant, Nov. Zool. ix. 1902, p. 475 ; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, xi. 1888, p. 92 ; Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Siam, i. 1915, p. 167. 



Lanius hypoleucus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xvii. 

 1848, p. 249; Hume, Stray Feathers, iii. 1875, p. 90. 



1 ? subad., 2 ? imm., 1 ^ imm. Lat Bua Kao. 



Iris dark ; maxilla horny or brown ; mandible grey ; 

 feet black. 



Females : T. L. 195, 180, 192 ; T. 86, 86, 85 ; W. 83, 84, 

 87; B.f. g. 20, 18, 19-4. 



Male : T. L. 192 ; T. 84 ; W. 86 ; B. f. g. 18. 



For comparison with the specimens enumerated I have 

 four Burmese Shrikes from the Indian Museum collection. 

 Two of them (a female from Kalaw, South Shan States, 

 obtained in November, and an unsexed skin labelled 

 "Burma"; wings 88 and 83 mm.) exactly agree in every 

 respect with the description and figure of birds from Siam, 

 which Gyldenstolpe has named Lanius hypoleucus siamensis 

 (Ornith. Monatsber. 1916, p. 28; id. Kungl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. 

 Handl. Ivi. No. 2, 1916, p. 40, pi. ii. fig. 2). The other two— 

 unsexed specimens from Mandalay taken in October, wings 

 83 and 85 mm. — only differ in having the black of the frontal 

 region continued over the occiput to meet the dark ear-coverts 

 (in this respect exactly resembling the birds from Tenasserim, 

 which Blyth named hypoleucus ^), and in being a little darker 



* " The entire crown nigrescent, passing gradually from the black of 

 the forehead to dark ashy on the nape; the eai'-coverts being uniformly 

 coloured with the feathers superiorly adjacent; ....the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts of the same deep maroon colour as the back and 

 scapular ies." 



