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plumage dull brownish mouse-colour. The quills are not fringed as in the male. The 

 bill in this species is built on the same model as that of i .panini; but there do not 

 appear to be as many grooves in the maxilla, five being the greatest number apparent. 



In a very old male (no. 6), judging by the bill, several new rectrices have come, 

 which have the central band almost white, the colour above and below this band being 

 black glossed with green, and not brown. The remaining old rectrices are as described 

 above. In a very old female example (no. 7) the same peculiarity is to be found. A young 

 male (no. 5) with the casque partially developed, but without lateral plates or grooves, 

 has the rump ferruginous, and the first-plumage rectrices broadly washed mth ferru- 

 ginous at their apex. 



Meyen {!. c.) most positively stated that this Lu9on chiselled-billed Buceros did not 

 belong to that of Panay ; and he gave an accurate figure of the old male. 



grown). 

 Dr. v. Martens (J. f. O. 1866, p. 18) enumerates as an additional species of Philip- 

 pine Hombill an individual observed by him in the Military Library at Manilla. He 

 describes it as being without a casque, and as having the tail long, the head crested, the 

 bill and face black, the nape pale yellowish brown, the back and wings spotted and the 

 under surface yellowish. Dr. v. Martens suggests that it may be £. gingalensis, Shaw, 

 and bestows no title. The description above given does not agree with the Ceylon 

 species, and was probably made from an immature example of one of the foregoing 

 species. 



LANIID^. 



Lanius, LinnaBUs. 

 70. * Lanius nasutus. 



Pie-grieche d'Antigiie, Soun. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 114, pi. 70. 



Lanius nasutus, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 85, no. 13 (1786), ex Sonn. 



Lanius antiguanus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 301, no. 39 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Lanius cephalomelas , Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 436, "Manilla;" Walden, Ibis, 1868, p. 70. 



Hab. Zebu (Meyer) ; Panay (Sonnerat). 



A single example of a black-headed Shrike, obtained in Zebu by Dr. A. B. Meyer, 



