70 Viscount Walden on Lanius raelanthes, and L. cephalomelas. 



bus ; subalaribus nigris ; rostro plumbeo-corneo ; pedibus ni- 

 gris. * * * China. Grosse typische Art." Further on, in the 

 same volume (p. 426), in his 'Index' to Dr. Pucheran's series 

 of papers on the types in the Paris Museum, Dr. Ilartlaub al- 

 ludes to Lesson's species in a way which seems indii'ectly to 

 identify it with that of Temminck ; for he says, '' Lanius fus- 

 catus, Less. p. 368. — Quid ? China. (Bona species : Hartl. 

 Mus. Lugd.) " * 



This Shrike seems to be closely allied to L. iephronotus (Vi- 

 gors, P. Z. S. 1831, p.43j. 



Lanius cephalomelas ■\ , Bonaparte (Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, 

 p. 436), is another doubtful Shrike, which does not appear to 

 have been satisfactorily identified. The Prince described it 

 from Manilla specimens of Consul Lannoy, in the Brussels 

 Museum, and of Kittlitz, in that of Frankfort. The diagnosis 

 is thus given : — "Major: niger; subtus albus ; dorso griseo, 

 hinc inde albo, postice cum uropygio et hypochondriis pallidis- 

 sime rufo : speculo alari remigibus interne ad basin, secundariis 

 apice quoque, albis : cauda valde cuneata ; rectricibus subtrun- 

 catis, prima et secunda latissime albo marginatis, tertia utrin- 

 que macula mediana marginali pogonii interui apiceque albis." 

 It is impossible to read this description, coupled with the con- 

 sideration of the Philippine origin of the types, without at 

 once recognizing Sonnerat's '* Pie-grieche d'Antigue " (Voy. a 

 la Nouv. Guin. p. 114, pi. 70), to which Scopoli (Fl. et Faun. 

 Insub. ii. p. 85, no. 13) in 1786 gave the name of Lanius na- 

 sutiis, Sonnerat's specimen having a prolonged and malformed 

 maxilla. The careless Italian author says " maudibula inferiore 

 elongata incurva ", notwithstanding Sonnerat's observation, " La 

 partie superieurc en est tres-longue, et sa courbure paroit si ex- 

 cessive, qu'on pourroit croire que c'est un defaut de conforma- 

 tion dans rindividu qui a servi pour la description." Gmelin in 

 1788 (Syst. Nat. i. p. 301, no. 29), upon the same plate founded 

 his L. antiguanus. This black-headed Shrike is closely allied to, 



* I have an impression, altliougli I cannot refer to tlie passage in wliicli 

 he did so, that Bonaparte subsequently united the two species. 



t [This word is printed cephalomelus in the passage cited, but of course 

 by mistake. — Ed.] 



