328 MESSRS' ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



laniidae. 



Shrikes. 



(A long crest, wings more than 4.75 inches Platyloi^hus gnlericulntua ardeftiacux 

 (No crest, winga less than 4.75 inches 



.jf Wings more than 2.75 inches, a broad blackish cheek-bar 

 I Wings less than 2.75 inches, no cheek-bar 



„ f Tail squai'e 



I Tail graduated 

 ,j Wings 4-4.75 inches, mantle in males browner Tephrodornis gulnris annectens 



(Wings 3.75-4.1 inches, mantle in males greyer . . T. g. fretensis 



J. f Crown and central tail-feathers blackish .. .. .. ./ 6 



(Crown not black, central tail-feathers brownish .. .. ..7 



„ (Under tail coverts white ; tail black and white, shorter . . Lanitis coUurioidea 

 t Under tail coverts rufous ; tail black and rufous, longer L. nigricepa lo7igicnitdatus 



-/Back barred with black .. .. .. L. tigrinus 



{ Back not barred . . . . . . . . • • . . >i 



( Whole crown brown . . . . . . . . L. c. critatun 



8 T Whole crown chestnut .. .. .. L. c. superciUosus 



( Crown grey, or grey and brown .. .. .. L. c. lucionensis 



qfWingfc entirely black .. .. .. Hemipus hiriindinaceua 



t Wings partly white . . . . . . . . .. H. picatua 



471. Platylophus galericulatus ardesiacus (Cab.). 



Lophocitta ardesciaca, Oabanis, in Bp. Consp. Av. 1850, p. 374 

 (Java?) ;id., Mus. Hein, i, 1850, p. 219 (Sumatra?). 



Platylophus ardesiacus, A., p. 880 (Bankasoon, Malewoon) ; C, i, 

 p. 410 (Tenasserim) ; H., p. 109 (Bandon) ; I., p. 42 (Hat Sanuk, 

 near Koh Lak). 



2 cf , 2 2 Bubad, Tasan, Chumporn, P. Siam, 14-26 March 

 1919 [Nos. 4567, 4700, 4^63-4]. 



"Iris reddish ; bill black ; feet greenish black", 



Total length d , 270, 270 ; 2 , 245, 265 ; wing d , 137, 139 ; 

 $,126,126, tail d, 130, 125; $,115, 118; tarsus d , 32, 33 : $, 

 32, 32 ; bill from gape 6 , 34, 34; $ , 30.5, 34 mm. 



This is the Malayan form, wrongly attributed to Sumatra or 

 Java : we cite as type locality the Settlement of Malacca. 

 472. Hemipus picatus (Sykes). 



Micscicapa picata, Skyes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 85 (Dekkan). 



Hemipus picatus, A., p. 207 (Tavoy to Bankasoon) ; C. i, p. 259 



(Tenasserim); F., p. 69 (Trang) ; H., p. 108 (Bandon); K., 



p. 213 (Koh Lak). 

 Hemiptis picatus picatus, M., y. 205 (Tung Song and Patiyu). 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E. O. Grant, Fasciculi .Alalayeiises. iii (Kuils). lOtt). 



B. Muller, Die Ornia der Insei Salanga, 1882. F. Bobinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oates, Birds Brit. Biirinah, Vols, i &: ii, 1883. G. (iairdner, .Journ. N. H. Hoc. Suini. i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote. P. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Robinson, Journ. K. M. S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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