174 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS 



La Piegrihche hlanche de Visle Panay, Sonnerat, op. cit. p. 115, pi. 72 ; 



Lanius alhus, Scopoli, torn. cit. p. 85, no. 15 (1786), ex Sonn. ; 



Lanins alius, Gm., torn. cit. p. 307, no. 42 (1788), ex Sonn., 

 have never been determined. Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 364) was unable to suggest 

 an identification; and in the Hand-list Mr. Gray omitted all the titles founded on 

 Sonnerat's two plates. The seventy-first is possibly meant to represent an African or 

 else Madagascar Ploceine form, perhaps a species of Foudia ; while the species figured 

 in the seventy-second plate, Lanius alhus, closely corresponds with Stitrnopastor mela- 

 noptertis (Daudin). 



ARTAMIDvE. 



Artamus, Vieillot. 

 73. Artamus leucortnus. 



Lanius manillensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 180, no. 17, "Manilla" (1760). 



Lanius leucorynus, Linn., Mantissa Plant, p. 524, "Manilla" (1771), ex Brisson; Walden, Tr. Z. 



S. viii. p. 67; Kittlitz, Kupfert. pi. 30. fig. 1. 

 Lanius philippinus, Scop. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 85, no. 12 (1786), ex Sonn. 



Hab. Negros, March ; Guimaras, March ; Luzon, January (il%«r). 



Sexes (Jide Meyer) do not differ. 



Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch (P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 116, 117, no. 5) assert that the 

 Phihppines, and more especially the island of Luzon, are inhabited by two distinct 

 species of the genus Artamus : — one, the darker-coloured species, which has hitherto 

 borne the title of Artamus (Loxia) melaleiims, R. Forster (Descr. Anim. p. 272, no. 221, 

 " New Caledonia ") ; and the other the Javan form, and, as for that, the Indo-Malayan, 

 Papuan, and Australian, Leptopteryx leucorhynchus (Linn.), Horsf. (Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 244, 

 "Java"). This assertion is not supplemented by any stated evidence; nor do they 

 profess to have seen Philippine examples of the darker species. The darker bird, A. 

 melaleucus (R. Forster), is referred by Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch to Lanius manillensis, 

 Brisson, and Sonnerat's Piegrieche dominiquaine and the subsequent titles based on 

 Brisson and Sonnerat's independent, separate, and original descriptions of that Philippine 

 bird ; and to it Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch apply the title of A. leucorhynchus (Gm.), 

 ex Brisson, but which is really a Linnaean title {I. c). 



The oldest title of the paler form they state to be Artamus leucorhynchus, Horsf. 

 (nee Gmelin ! ). The title, not being Horsfield's, cannot be retained, even if Messrs. 

 Hartlaub and Finsch can show that A. melaleucus also inhabits the Philippines ; and 

 that of A. leucogaster, Valenc. Mem. du Mus. vi. p. 27 (1820), would have to be 

 adopted. I have never met with specimens of any other than this latter species from 

 the Philippines ; and I have no doubt that from it Brisson and Sonnerat took their 

 descriptions. True Loocia melaleuca, R. Forster, ex New Caledonia, only differs from 

 the widely spread Lanius leucorhynchus, Linn., in having the entu-e head almost black 



