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the greater wing coverts are crimson like the scapulars, and 
the outer secondary wing coverts are spotted with reddish 
white and whitish as in punceticollis; primaries as in that 
species; throat spotted or barred with white, the black portions 
of the feathers limited, in old specimens, to marginal spots ; 
chest and lower part of throat black, striated with white, very 
‘boldly on the chest, the whole of the centres being white 
with parallel Hacks margins to the feathers; these diminish 
on the breast, leaving the lower parts merely dark-edged, and 
as white in appearance as aurantius. Under-tail cover ts barred 
or centred and edged with black. 
Female.—Iris red or duller than that of the male. The crim- 
son of the occipital crest is not so brilliant, and the back and 
scapulars are orange, slightly washed with crimson ; the outer 
webs of secondaries and tertials and the wing cover ts brownish 
orange. Some specimens (and I[ think this is the normal 
phase of the female plumage) have no crimson whatever, on 
the back, this and the wings being pure orange. An imma- 
ture example (having, as is ‘the case with nonage in all Brachyp- 
terni, the markings of the chest oval) cor rresponds in this 
respect exactly with an old or striated-chested female. 
Habitat.—Inhabits the forests of the whole northern part of 
the island, commencing in the region north of Kurnegalla, and 
found throughout the great jungle tract as far as Trincomalie 
and the Ibanni. 
In Coil. National Museum, Ceylon, and coll. W, V. Legge. 
257.—Lanius erythronotus, Vigors. 
Differs from its Indian relative, in its smaller size and almost 
complete absence of rufous on the scapulars, only the terminal 
portions of the longer, underlying, feathers being thus color- 
ed. The rufous of the rump is almost confined to that region, 
and does not extend up to the centre of the back asin Indian 
examples. Should this diagnosis be correct, I would propose the 
name of L. afinis for our bird as a sub-species,* The matter of 
diminutive size, however, is not of any value whatever accord- 
ing to my view, as this feature holds good of almost all 
mo forms in Ceylon, and is the result of the warm climate 
only. 
265.— Tephrodornis ponticeriana, Gmelin. 
Some Ceylon specimens have very large supercillia. This bird 
was at one time thought to migrate from the Western Province 
during the 8S. W. monsoon. This is erroneous; it merely 
retires from the unsheltered coast region to the interior. 
* This is apparently nothing but L. caniceps, Blyth.—Ep., 5 F. 
