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Vol. IX.] BOMBAY. [No. 2. 



THE BIRDS OF NORTH CACHAR. 



PART III. 



By E. C. Stuart Baker, f.z.s. 



(With Plate C.) 



(Continued from page 24.) 



Family Lianiidm. 



Sub-family Laniinw. 



(194) Lanius colluroides. — The Burmese Shrike. 



Oates, No. 474 ; Hume, No. 260 Ter. 



This bird is, strange to say, not a winter but a summer visitant to the 

 North Cachar Hills, and it is probable that it works its way north-west 

 through Manipur from Burma. It is, at no time, a common bird, and 

 some years I have not seen a single one. It never extends to the west 

 of the district, and is most often to be met with on the loftier hills of the 

 extreme east. I took its nest for the first time in May, 1890, and since 

 then have taken some half dozen. The nests are just like those of 

 L. nigriceps, and the eggs only differ in being somewhat smaller ; 12 

 of them measure, on an average, *87"X'71". 



