596 MESSRS. DRESSER AND SHARPE [June 23, 
Lanius burra, Gray & Hardw. Ill. Ind. Zool. pl. 32 (1833). 
Lanius excubitor, var. 3, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 7 (1822). 
Lanius minor, Riipp. Neue Wirb. p. 33 (1835, nee Gm.) ; id. 
Syst. Uebers. p. 62 (1845) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 33 (1856). 
Lanius orbitalis, Hempr. & Ebr. in mus. Berol. et Licht. 
Nomenel. Ay. p. 12 (1854, ¢este Finsch & Hartlaub). 
Lanius collurio (juv.), Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. p. 23 (1861) ; ¢d. 
Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 285 (err.). 
Lanius pallens, Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1851, p. 245 ; 
id. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1853, p. 258, pl. 23 (juyv.). 
Collyrio pallens, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). 
Lanius aucheri, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 294; 
Gray, Hand-I. of B. i. p. 391. 
Lanius dealbatus, Defil. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 289 (ad.) ; 
Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 294; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 
p- 199; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 33 (1856); Adams, Ibis, 1864, 
p- 27; Tavlor, Ibis, 1867, p. 57; Taczan. J. f. O. 1870, p. 48. 
Lanius leuconotus, Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 147 ; Heugl. 
Syst. Uebers. p. 33 (1856). 
Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ost-Afr. p. 329 
1870). 
Collyrio hemileucurus, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). 
Lanius fallax, Finsch & Hartl. Trans. Zool. Soc. 
Lanius meridionalis, Tristr. Ibis, 1862, p. 279; id. Ibis, 1867, 
p-. 374 (=L. lahtora, juv.) 
Lanius excubitor, Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 47; Tristr. Ibis, 1867, 
p. 364 (=L. lahtora, ad.) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 12. : 
Lanius leucopygus, Hempr. & Ehr.; Heugl. Orn. N.-O. Afr. 
p- 480. 
Head and back pale French grey ; a narrow frontal line, extending 
backwards and including the loral space, the feathers above and 
below the eye, and the ear-coverts, which are somewhat elongated 
and extend on to the sides of the neck, deep black; a faint line on 
the forehead above the black line, and extending over the eye, hoary 
white; scapulars French grey, broadly edged with white; least 
wing-coverts grey ; rest of the wing-coverts black ; primaries black, 
slightly tipped with white, the basal half white, forming a distinct alar 
bar, secondaries black, broadly tipped, and the whole of the inner web 
white; the outermost secondaries narrowly edged on the outer web 
with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; two centre feathers 
of the tail on each side black, slightly tipped with white, the next 
broadly tipped with white, the next still more broadly with white, with 
the basal portion and the outer web entirely white, the two exterior 
feathers entirely white with black shaft; the whole underparts pure 
white ; legs and bill blackish horn-colour. 
The above description is taken from a very old bird from the 
Punjab, and agrees with an equally old specimen from Algeria (L. 
hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl.) in the minutest particulars. Nor 
do these specimens alone coincide; for we have before us a large 
series, from localities ranging from Algeria to Palestine, which exactly 
