104 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
50.—Lanius homeyeri, Cab, (256 dis.) 
This Grey Shrike is rare in Gilgit, and is only found on 
migration in spring and autumn. I obtained a male on the 27th 
November, which measured :—Length, 10:4 inches; expanse, 
14°65; wing, 4°65 ; tail, 4:5; tarsus, 1°15; bill from gape, 1:14; 
culmen, 0°75 ; closed wings short of end of tail, 3 ; outer tail- 
feathers, 0°85 shorter than uropygials. I proceed to give a 
description of this specimen, by which the species may be 
discriminated from its numerous allies. 
Forehead sullied white; lores white, with fine black shafts 
to the feathers; rump grey, the same colour as the back; 
basal part of upper tail-coverts white, the terminal halves of 
these feathers a paler grey than the rump and back; minor 
wing-coverts grey ; chin, upper throat, lower wing-coverts and 
axillaries, and lower tail-coverts white; rest of lower surface 
pinkish white, with faint cross bars on the breast and upper part 
of abdomen, formed by narrow pale-brown margins to the 
feathers ; all the primaries white on both webs at the bases ; 
the secondaries white on both webs at the bases, except the 
innermost two, the white on the inner webs running narrowly 
down to the tips of the feathers; from the eighth primary to 
all but two of the innermost secondaries with conspicuous 
white margins to the tips of the feathers ; outermost pair of 
rectrices wholly white, the central part of the shaft alone black ; 
next pair white on outer web, the inner web white, with a 
large black patch about the middle of the feather; third pair 
white at base and tip, the intermediate part black on both 
webs; fourth pair with more black than the preceding on 
both webs, especially towards the tip, where only half an inch 
of white remains ; fifth pair with only a small spot of white 
at tip, and little more white at base than on the uropygials ; 
uropygials black, white at base for 1-2 inch. 
This specimen is, I believe, correctly referred to L. homeyeri. 
It differs from ZL. lahtora in many particulars, too numerous to 
mention. From ZL. eweubitor it differs in having more white on 
the lores, wings, and tail, the size of the feet and the breadth 
of the tail-feathers being the same as in that species. 
51.—Lanius erythronotus, Vigors. (257.) 
In my collection are specimens of this Shrike shot in Gilgit 
from the 18th April to the 28th December; but the last bird 
must be considered very late in migrating, as this species 
leaves us, I think, in October. 
52.—Lanius cristatus, Lin. (261.) 
This species must be expunged from the Gilgit list. In 
the rufous-tailed Shrikes there are two distinct sections, 
