EtfNEOCTONUS. CEPHALOPHONEUS. 



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Enneoctonus vittatus 

 (Plate XII. fig. 19.) 



Lanius vittatus, Gadow, Cat. Birds, B. M. viii. p. 280 (1883) ; Gates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 462 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs 

 Ind. Birds, i. p. 311 (1889). 



Enneoctonus vittatus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1993). 



The eggs of the Bay-backed Shrike are smaller than those of 

 Lanius lahtora, Cephalophoneus erythronotus, and O. nigriceps, but 

 do not otherwise differ from them. They measure from *75 to *95 

 in length, and from *62 to '71 in breadth. 



2. Sind (J. H. Gould). . Gould Coll. 



2. Hansi, 5th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 12th April. Hume Coll. 

 4. Hansi, 14th April. Hume Coll. 



3. Hansi, 15th April. Hume Coll. 



4. Hansi, 16th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



3. Hansi, July. Hume Coll. 

 3. Hansi, August. Hume Coll. 



2. Delhi, 29th June (C. T. Bingham] . Hume Coll. 



3. Delhi, 15th Sept. (C. T. B.). Hume Coll. 



1. Delhi, 17th Sept. (C. T. B.). Hume CoU. 



3. Agra, July. Hume Coll. 



2. Agra, 26th July. Hume Coll. 

 2. Bareilly, 23rd May. Hume Coll. 



1. Bareilly, 5th June. Hume Coll. 



4. Bareilly, 15th June. Hume Coll. 



2. Bareilly, 20th June. Hume Coll. 



1. Bareilly, 22nd June. Hume Coll. 



2. Bareilly, 24th June. Hume Coll. 

 1. Etawah, 10th May. Hume Coll. 



1. Etawah, 14th May. Hume CoU. 



7. N. W. Provinces, India. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Bengal ( W. Theobald : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Jhansi. Hume Coll. 



3. Jhansi, 2nd July. Hume Coll. 



4. Jhansi, 7th July. Hume Coll. 

 2. Hoshungabad, 22nd July. Hume Coll. 



Genus CEPHALOPHONEUS, Fitz. 



Cephalophoneus bucephalus (Temm. $ Schl.}. 



(Plate XII. fig. 18.) 



Lanius bucephalus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 270 (1883); 



Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 106 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml 



p. 72 (1899). 

 Cephalophoneus bucephalus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 286 (1903). 



The eggs of the Bull-headed Shrike are of a somewhat elongated, 

 pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. They are of a greenish 



