in nil/fit'* 7>Vjv/.s finnn. p. 101) ; Uoilw.-Autt. J. A. 8. If. xlv, pt. ii, 

 p. 81 ; xlvii, pt. ii, p. li> ; Jltanc $ Duo. 8. F. vi, p. o70 ; lLm>-, 

 ( 'at. no. (51 :> ; Or/fc*, 7>'. .#. i. p. 140 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 04<J ; 

 Jfiime, 8. F. xi. p. -M->. 



Yellow-backed Shrike- Tit, Jerd. ; Khatyn, Nepal; Rabnoon or 

 n-pho t Lepcb. 



Fig. 66. Head of 6'. nepalensis. 



Coloration. Male. The lores, sides of forehead, and a broad 

 band passing through the eyes and ear-coverts round the nape 

 black ; the whole crown inside this black band deep slaty ; back, 

 scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright chestnut; wing- 

 coverts black ; quills black, all but the first two with a patch of 

 slaty near the base, increasing in extent inwards, and the third to 

 the sixth or seventh primary with a narrow edging of the same 

 about the middle of the outer web ; most of the later quills 

 minutely tipped with white ; tail black ; lower plumage white, the 

 sides of the body boldly barred with black ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts pale buff. 



Female. The slaty colour of the head paler ; the band round the 

 head chocolate-brown ; the back and scapulars reddish brown with 

 large oval black spots ; otherwise as in the male. 



Legs and feet rich wax-yellow ; claws pale yellowish horny ; bill 

 black, pale leaden blue at gape and base of lower mandible ; iris 

 brown (Hume). 



Length about 7 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3*7 ; tarsus 1*2 ; bill from 

 gape *9. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Nepal to the Daphla bills in 

 Assam ; Eastern Naga hills ; Manipur ; Karennee ; apparently 

 at 0000 feet and upwards. 



Jlitbits, 6fc. Gregarious, on high trees. 



Genus PTEEUTHIUS, Swains., 1831. 



The genus PterutJiius contains five Indian species with the 

 general external appearance of Shrikes. 



The bill is about one half the length of the head, strong, strongly 

 hocked at the tip, and with the margins sinuated ; the rictal bristles 

 are weak. The nostrils are oval and partially covered by the frontal 

 bristles, which are well developed. The feathers of the crown are 

 somewhat ample, but they do not form a crest. 



