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La Piegrieche blanche de Visle Panay, Sonnerat, op. cit. p. 115, pl. 72 ; 
Lanius albus, Scopoli, tom. cit. p. 85, no. 15 (1786), ex Sonn. ; 
Lanius albus, Gm., tom. cit. p. 307, no. 42 (1788), ex Sonn., 
have never been determined. Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 364) was unable to suggest 
an identification; and in the Hand-list Mr. Gray omitted all the titles founded on 
Sonnerat’s two plates. The seventy-first is possibly meant to represent an African or 
else Madagascar Ploceine form, perhaps a species of Moudia; while the species figured 
in the seventy-second plate, Lantus albus, closely corresponds with Sturnopastor mela- 
nopterus (Daudin). 
ARTAMID. 
Artamus, Vieillot. 
73. ARTAMUS LEUCORYNUS. 
Lanius manillensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 180, no. 17, “ Manilla” (1760). 
Lanius leucorynus, Linn., Mantissa Plant. p. 524, “ Manilla” (1771), ex Brisson; Walden, Tr. Z. 
S. viii. p. 67; Kittlitz, Kupfert. pl. 30. fig. 1. 
Lanius philippinus, Scop. F\. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 85, no. 12 (1786), ex Sonn. 
Hab. Negros, March ; Guimaras, March ; Luzon, January (Meyer). 
Sexes (ide Meyer) do not differ. 
Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch (P.Z.S. 1868, pp. 116, 117, no. 5) assert that the 
Philippines, and more especially the island of Luzon, are inhabited by two distinct 
species of the genus Artamus:—one, the darker-coloured species, which has hitherto 
borne the title of Artamus (Loxia) melaleucus, R. Forster (Descr. Anim. p. 272, no, 221, 
“ New Caledonia”); and the other the Javan form, and, as for that, the Indo-Malayan, 
Papuan, and Australian, Leptopteryx leucorhynchus (Linn.), Horsf. (Tr. L. §. xiii. p. 244, 
“ Java”). This assertion is not supplemented by any stated evidence; nor do they 
profess to have seen Philippine examples of the darker species. The darker bird, A. 
melaleucus (R. Forster), is referred by Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch to Lanius manillensis, 
Brisson, and Sonnerat’s Piegriéche dominiquaine and the subsequent titles based on 
Brisson and Sonnerat’s independent, separate, and original descriptions of that Philippine 
bird ; and to it Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch apply the title of A. lewcorhynchus (Gm.), 
ex Brisson, but which is really a Linnean title (/. ¢.). 
The oldest title of the paler form they state to be Artamus leucorhynchus, Horsf. 
(nec Gmelin! ). The title, not being Horsfield’s, cannot be retained, even if Messrs. 
Hartlaub and Finsch can show that A. melaleucus also inhabits the Philippines; and 
that of A. leucogaster, Valenc. Mém. du Mus. vi. p. 27 (1820), would have to be 
adopted. I have never met with specimens of any other than this latter species from 
the Philippines; and I have no doubt that from it Brisson and Sonnerat took their 
descriptions. ‘True Loaia melaleuca, R. Forster, ex New Caledonia, only differs from 
the widely spread Lanius leucorhynchus, Linn., in haying the entire head almost black 
