106 <A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
Lanius phoenicuroides, Severtzoff. (262 bis.) 
Lanius pheenicuroides, Severtzoff, Stray FEATHERS, 
III. p. 430 (1875). 
This species was only observed during the autumn migra-~ 
tion. An immature specimen shot on the 8th September 
measured :—Leagth, 7'5 inches ; wing, 3°5; tail, 3°15; tarsus, 
0°85; bill from gape, 0°8 ; culmen, 0-75. Third and fourth pri- 
maries longest, second intermediate in lenoth between the fifth and 
sixth ; head, rump, and under tail- coverts rufous, barred with 
black ; rest ‘of upper surface dark rufous-brown, unbarred ; 
lower surface white, cross-barred with dark brown. 
The adults of this species differ from Lanius isabellinus in 
having a differently shaped wing and tail, in the wing-spe- 
culum being larger, the lower surface white, the whole lores 
black, the head more rufous than the back, and the quills 
more black. To phenicuroides must be referred :—Mr. Dres- 
ser’s figure of ZL, isabellinus before mentioned; Lord Walden’s 
figure and description of LZ. isabellinus in The Ibis, 1867, 
pp. 224, 226, pl. v., fig. 1; Schalow’s supposed young 
L. arenarius, J. f. O., 1875, p. 148 ; Nos. 1 and 15 of the speci- 
mens mentioned by Mr. Blanford in his “ Zoology of Persia,” 
p- 140; and the specimen referred to as a fully adult male by 
the same author in his “‘ Zoology of Abyssinia,” p. 339. 
Severtzoft’s name of L. phenicuroides is happily chosen ; for 
his species does bear a great resemblance to L. phenicurus ; 
but, as I mentioned under ZL. cristatus, it belongs to a different 
section according to the characters of its tail. 
Lanius collurio, Zin. (260 dis.) 
The Red-backed Shrike is found in Gilgit only on passage. 
I obtained three immature examples, on the 4th and 16th 
September and 2nd November, during the autumn migration, 
but never observed if at any other time. This Shrike is 
recorded by Severtzoff as breeding in Turkestan, and isa 
rare autumn Sstraggler to the plains of India in the north-west. 
My specimens measure:—Length, 7:2 to 7°4 inches; wing, 3°7; 
tail, 3:2 to 3:5 ; tarsus, 0°8 to 0°95; bill from gape, 0°8 to 8°85 ; 
eulmen, 0°68 to 0°7. They agree perfectly with a series of 
young English examples of L. collurio with which I have com- 
pared them. Young JL. collurio is very like young L. pheni- 
euroides, but can easily be distinguished from it thus: in 
L. collurio the second primary is intermediate in length between 
the fourth and fifth, and the distance between the longest 
secondaries and longest primary is about equal to the length 
of the tarsus; in L. phenicuroides the second primary is inter- 
