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362. PHILIPPINE RED-TAILED SHRIKE. 

 LANIUS LUCIONENSIS. 



Lanius lucionensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 135 (1766) ; Walden, Trans. 

 .Zool. Soc. ix. p. 171, pi. xxix, fig. 1 ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, 

 i. p. 469 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. p. 274 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 502. 



( ad. (China). Forehead and supercilium white, the former merging 

 into blue-grey on the fore-part of the crown, and then to brownish grey on 

 the hind-crown ; upper parts greyish brown, tinged with rufous on the 

 rump ; no wing speculum ; otherwise like L. cristatus, but the under parts 

 below the throat are warm orange-buff. Culmen 0*65, wing 3*6, tail 3 '5, 

 tarsus 0'95 inch. The female has the under parts paler, the lores and 

 ear-coverts brownish black, and the white and grey on the forehead less 

 pronounced. The young bird resembles L. cristatus, but is rather greyer 

 in tinge. 



Hal. The Ussuri country in E. Siberia, Askold, China, 

 Corea, and Manchuria ; wintering in the Andamans, Nicobars, 

 South Tenasserim, the Malay peninsula, Borneo, and the 

 Philippines. 



In habits it does not differ from its allies, and I do not 

 find any description of its nest and eggs on record. It is 

 distinguishable from L. cristatus by its blue-grey forehead, 

 orange-buff abdomen, and by the upper parts being greyer. 



363. BULL-HEADED SHRIKE. 

 LANIUS BUCEPHALUS. 



Lanius bucephalus, Temin. and Schlegel, Fann. Jap. p. 39, pi. 14 (1850) ; 

 Bogdanoff, Sorokop. Russk. Faun. p. 86 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 viii. p. 270 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. 0. p. 491 ; ? L. brachyurus, Pall. Zoog. 

 R. As. i. p. 405 (1811). 



Mozu, Jap. 



$ ad. (Japan). Head as in L. cristatus, but the white supercilium 

 narrower ; upper parts and tail slate-grey, the latter with the central 

 feather blackish towards the end, and all with narrow pale tips ; quills 

 blackish with dull white margins to the secondaries ; a small white 

 speculum ; chin, throat, and abdomen white ; flanks warm rufous ; bill 

 bluish black, paler at the base ; legs blackish brown ; iris brown. 

 Culmen 0'68, wing 3'4, tail 3'6, tarsus I'Ol inch. The female is much 

 more rufous, the back is reddish brown, the wings brown margined with 



