204 BIRDS OF TENASSEMM. 



involving the ear-coverts, black ; a faint white Hue over the eye, 

 sometimes continued over a portion of the black ear patch ; the 

 whole of the rest of the forehead, crown, occiput, back and 

 sides of neck, and just the upper portion of the back, very 

 clear pale grey ; rest of back, rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 wing-coverts, (except the greater coverts) pale brownish 

 chestnut ; all the feathers banded with narrow black bars, 

 (the first interspace generally paler) ; the general color rather 

 browner on the upper back and more rufous on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; the secondary greater coverts and 

 tertiaries similar, but paler and browner, tipped somewhat paler, 

 with one sub-terminal dark band, having a tendency to run up 

 as a dark line just inside the outer margin ; winglet, primaries 

 and their greater coverts hair brown ; the primaries just per- 

 ceptibly margined paler, and the secondaries obscurely tipped 

 paler, and the margins rnfescent ; tail dull pale brownish chest- 

 nut ; all but the central feathers narrowly tipped with white, 

 with a dark very narrow sub-terminal band ; all the tail feathers 

 obscurely transversely rayed paler and darker. 



The entire under-parts unmarked and unbarred white; a 

 few only of the posterior flank feathers, nearest the rump, faintly 

 rufescent and barred ; a very faint creamy tinge on the throat. 



A somewhat younger bird has the whole back and wings 

 pure chestnut, a distinct creamy tinge over the whole throat, 

 breast and abdomen, and a few bars on the sides of the abdo- 

 men, as well as on the flanks. 



In the stage in which the bird is most commonly met witli 

 the whole of the parts that are grey in the adult are a dull 

 rather deep brownish ferruginous (except on the sides of the 

 neck, which are fulvous white), the whole obscurely but narrow- 

 ly banded with black or blackish brown ; the lores and frontal 

 streak are fulvous brown ; ear-coverts rufescent, or mingled 

 rufescent and pale fulvous ; the sides of the lower mandible and 

 all but the middle of the breast and abdomen barred with blackish 

 brown, the whole lower parts having a creamy tinge, more ru- 

 fescent on the sides of the abdomen and flanks. Gradually 

 the top of the head and nape become a uniform brownish red, 

 black feathers begin to appear in the lores, and amongst the 

 ear-coverts, the lateral barrings on the lower surface begin to 

 diminish in extent; then pale blue grey feathers begin to 

 appear on the forehead and nape ; and gradually the bird passes 

 into the comparatively rare adult stage already described. 



261.— Lanius cristatus, Lin. (23). 



(Karcnnse, Earns.) Kyonk-nyat ; Pahpoon ; Thatone ; Megaloon ; Moulraoin ; 

 JSTgibceinah ; Amherst; Tavoy ; Mergui; Pukchan. 



