470 



Coloration. The forehead and a distinct supercilium greyish 

 white ; the feathers immediately at the base of the upper mandible, 

 the lores, and a broad streak passing through the eyes and covering 

 the ear-coverts black ; the whole upper plumage and scapulars 

 greyish brown, tinged with rufous on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; tail brown, tinged with rufous and tipped paler; chin, 

 throat, and sides of neck white ; remainder of lower plumage pale 

 buff; the coverts and the wing dark brown, each feather edged 

 with rufous, more broadly so on the tertiaries than elsewhere. 



The young have the upper plumage brown closely barred with 

 black, and the lower plumage yellowish or buffy white; all the 

 feathers except those on the chin, throat, middle of breast, and 

 abdomen barred w 7 ith dark brown. 



Legs and feet dull leaden blue; the upper mandible horny 

 brown, edged whitish near the gape ; the terminal third of the 

 lower mandible horny brown ; the basal two thirds bluish or 

 fleshy white ; irides brown (Davison). 



Length 8 ; tail 3'6 ; wing 3'5 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape '9. 



Distribution. The An damans and Nicobars ; the extreme southern 

 part of Tenasserim ; the Mergui Islands. In the Andamans this 

 Shrike appears to be a permanent resident, for in the Hume 

 Collection are specimens killed in these islands in almost every 

 month of the year. It is said to have occurred in Ceylon. 



In winter this species is found in the Malay peninsula and the 

 Philippine Islands, and it passes the summer in Northern China. 



483. Lanius tigrinus. The Thick-billed Shrike. 



Lanius tigrinus, Drapiez, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. xiii, p. 523 (1828) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 152; Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 289. 



Lanius magnirosms, Lesson, Voy. Belanqer, p. 251 (1834) ; Wald. 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 220, pi. vi, 1871, p. 173; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 203 ; Hume, Cat. no. 260quat. ; Gates, B. B. i. p. 253. 



Enneoctonus tigrinus (Drap.}, Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 168. 



Coloration. The whole head above, nape, sides of neck, and a 

 portion of the upper back grey ; the forehead, lores, and a broad 

 band covering the eye and ear-coverts black ; back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts, the scapulars, and the lesser arid median wing- 

 coverts chestnut, barred across with black; greater wing-coverts 

 and tertiaries dull chestnut, dusky interiorly and tipped pale ; pri- 

 maries and secondaries brown, edged narrowly with rufous ; tail 

 reddish brown, all but the middle pair of feathers tipped with 

 M ? hite ; the whole tail obsoletely barred across, and with a darker 

 bar in front of the white tips ; the entire lower plumage creamy 

 white, a small portion of the flanks near the thighs barred with 

 brown. 



The young have the whole upper plumage, including the head, 

 reddish brown closely barred with black : and the whole lower 

 plumage, except the throat and the middle of the breast and abdo- 

 men, is barred with dark brown ; there is no black stripe on the 



