LANIID^E. 127 



nasutus, Scop.; antiguanus, Gm. ; tricolor, Hodgs." E. BlytJi) 

 1846. 



Two forms of this bird occur in India to which the names of L. 

 nigriceps Frankl. and L. bicolor, Hodgs. have been applied : a belongs 

 to the former, b and c to the latter race. It is also not improbable 

 that Scopoli's name L. nasutus will have to be used for one or both 

 of these birds, on which point see Lord Tweeddale's remarks, Trans. 

 Z. S. ix. p. 169. 



612. Lanius vittatus. 



Lanius vittatus, Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 227. 



Collurio hardwickii, Vig. P. Z. S. 1830-1, p. 42: Gould, Cent. 

 B. Him. pi. 12. 



Lanius hardwickii, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 405. 



a Himalaya (N. C.Strickland) 1838. b India (E. Myth) 1846. 

 c Kohilkund (W. J. E. Boys) 1847. 



613. Lanius collurio. 



Lanius collurio, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 136 : Strick. P. Z. S. 

 1836, p. 97; 1850, p. 217: Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 209. 



a Worcestershire (H. E. Strickland) 1832. 6, c, Aberdovey 

 (H. E. Strickland] Aug. 1833. d Smyrna (H. E. Strickland) 

 April 1836. e (N. G. Strickland) 1838. /Kordofan (J.Pethe- 

 rick) 1848. 



614. Lanius cristatus. 



Lanius cristatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 134 : Strickl. Ann. & 

 Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 44: Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 406: Wald. Ibis, 1867, 

 212. 



Lanius melanotis, "Cuv." Puch. Arch. d. Mus. vii. p. 324: 

 Strickl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiii. pp. 36, 205. 



Lanius ferrugiceps, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. i. p. 446. 



a, b (N. G. Strickland) 1838. c Nepal (B. H. Hodgson 

 431) 1845. d Madras (T. C.Jerdon) 1845. e India ("Lanius 

 melanotis" E. Blyth) 1846. /India (E. Blyth) 1846. g (E. 

 Brown) 1850. 



In 1846 Strickland (P. Z. S. p. 102) retracted his opinion ex- 

 pressed in 1844 (Ann. & Mag. N". H. xiv. p. 44) as to the distinctness 

 of this bird from L. lucionensia and its allies and placed all under the 



