AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN Mysore. 365 
260.—Lanius vittatus, Valenc. The Bay-backed 
Shrike. 
This pretty little Shrike is found at the hase:of the Nilghiris 
and in Mysore, but as far as I have observed only where the 
country was sparsely wooded. 
261.—Lanius cristatus, Zin. The Brown Shrike. 
A winter visitant to Southern India. From towards the 
end of November to early in March it is very common on the 
Nilghiris, frequenting gardens, orchards, &e. The great 
majority of the birds are immature, showing more or less of 
the barrings on the lower surface. 
264.—Tephrodornis sylvicola, Jerd. The Malabar 
Wood-shrike. 
This Wood-shrike does not ascend quite to the tableland of 
the Nilghiris, but I have shot it at Neddivuttum, at about 
5,500 feet elevation, though it is rare at this height. It is 
nowhere very common, but is, perhaps, most numerous in the 
well wooded portions of the Wynaad. Usually it is in. parties 
of from four to eight, occasionally in pairs. It does’ not 
differ in habits from 7. pedvica. 
The following are the dimensions, &c., of several taken in the 
flesh :— 
Length, 84 to 8:7; expanse, 14°6 to 15:0; tail, 3:3 to 
35; wing, 45 to 4°65; tarsus, 0°75; bill from gape, 1:12 to 
1:21; weight, 1:12 to 1°4 oz. 
Bill and claws black ; legs and feet dark plumbeous; irides 
greenish yellow. 
265.—Tephrodornis pondicerianus, Gm. The Com- 
mon Wood-shrike. 
I found this species sparingly distributed in the Wynaad. 
I have never met with it on the slopes of the Nilghiris. 
267.—Hemipus picatus, Sykes. The Pied Fly- 
shrike, 
~ This species, though classed as a Shrike, is in habits a Fly- 
catcher. It is a common bird on the Nilghiris and its slopes, 
and through the Wynaad-and Mysore. It prefers well-wooded 
country. 
268.—Volvocivora sykesi, Strick/. The Black-headed 
©. Cuckoo-shrike. 
Occurs, but-not abundantly, on the slopes of the Nilghiris 
in the Wynaad and Mysore. I have shot it in the Government 
Gardens at Ootacamund. 
