LAM US. 403 



Coloration. Forehead, lores, ear-coverts, and round tlie eyes 

 blackish : crown, nape, and sides of the neck ashy, paling poste- 

 riorly ; back, rump, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts chestnut : 

 wing- co verts brown, edged with ferruginous ; tertiaries the same ; 

 primaries and secondaries dark brown, narrowly edged on the outer 

 webs with whitish; the inner webs of all white at the base; the 

 fifth to tenth primaries also with a white spot on the outer web 

 near the base ; the outermost pair of tail-feathers white with black 

 shafts ; the next white, with a large black patch on the inner web ; 

 the others black, tipped with white ; under wing-coverts mixed 

 black and white ; lower plumage pale fulvous. 



Iris pale reddish brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill black ; the gape 

 and the greater portion of the lower mandible flesh-colour; mouth 

 flesh-colour; legs plumbeous ; claws horn-colour. 



Length 8 ; tail 4 ; wing <3'5 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape '8. 



In this species the colour of the crown and nape varies from 

 dark to pale ashy. In many birds the base of the forehead and 

 the lores are white, a feature which is neither seasonal nor sexual 

 but probably due to age. The nestling has the head fulvous and 

 the back rufous, both parts cross-barred with dark brown ; the 

 lower plumage is barred with wavy brown lines. 



Distribution. The Eastern portion of the Empire from Manipur 

 through Burma as far south as Amherst and the Thoungyeen 

 valley in Tenasseriin. Wardlaw Ramsay observed this species in 

 Karennee. It is in some measure a migrant, but its movements are 

 probably of limited extent. I have examined specimens of it killed 

 in Burma in every month in the year except May. It is, however, 

 very rare from March to June and very common at other times, 

 and it probably breeds in the mountainous and less-known parts of 

 Burma east of the Salween river. 



475. Lanius nigriceps. The Black-headed Shrike. 



Collurio nigriceps, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 117 ; Hume, N. fy E. 

 p. 172. 



Laiiius nigriceps (FranH.\ Blyth, Cat. p. 151 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, 

 p. 106 ; Jerd. 12. I. i, p. 404 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, 

 p. 644 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 202 : Cripps, S. F. vii, p. 268 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 259 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 264 ; Gadow, Cat. B. 

 M. viii, p. 268; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 144; Hume, S. F. xi, 

 p. 89 ; Gates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 315. 



Lanius nasutus (Scop.), apud Oates, B. B. i, p. 248. 



Sakrik-pho, Lepch. 

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Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, lores, and sides of 

 the head and neck black ; upper part of the back ashy ; remainder 

 of back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars chestnut; wing- 

 coverts black ; quills dark brown, the tertiaries broadly, the other 

 quills narrowly, margined with rufous ; a white patch at the base 

 of the primaries ; tail-feathers black, more broadly tipped and mar- 

 gined with rufous from the middle pair to the outer pair, the two 



