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Egg. "Dr. Platen sent me an egg of this bird from Rurukan, wliich except for a difference 

 in size, resembles those of its relations L. sykesi Sws. of East India, tricolor (Bodd.) 

 of Australia, terat (Bodd.) of Java, iMcifiea Gml. from the Tonga Islands and 

 leucomelaeim V. & H. of Australia and the Aru Islands. The ground-colour is 

 blue-green; the spots of liver-brown, which are somewhat large, not sharply defined, 

 but lengthened, are equally distributed over the whole egg and form no circlet. The 

 shell is very smooth and glossy. Size 21.5 X 16 mm. Black streaks and points as 

 on the egg of L. leucopi/gialis are to be found on the eggs of almost all Campo- 

 phagidae here and there, but always few and far between" (Nehrkorn MS.). 



Nest. (The nest of the allied L. terat Bodd. [= orientalis Gm.] of Java is thus described 

 by Bernstein [J. f. 0. 1859, 274]: the small, fiat, nest of only about 2 inches in 

 diameter consists only of some few bents, small roots and such bke, and the support 

 most preferred for it is a bough, upon which it is built and which usually forms of 

 itself a part of the nest bottom. Consequently the bird likes to make use of the 

 place where a not too weak bough forms a fork for the site of the nest, which in 

 this way also receives strong support at the sides. Externally it is spun over with 

 sj)iders' and caterpillars' web, and covered with small bits of Hchen. Li this simple, 

 fragile nest the female lays its two eggs.) 



Distribution. Celebes — Minahassa (Wallace .5, Meyer 6, etc.); Banka Id. and Manado 

 tua Id. (Nat. Coll. in Dresd. Mus.); Gorontalo Distr. (Meyer 6'); Tonkean, E. Celebes 

 (Nat. Coll.); Tawaya, W. Celebes (Doherty iff); Kandari, S. E. Celebes (Beccari 2); 

 Macassar (Wallace 5, Weber 12); Indrulaman (Everett 15); Peling and Banggai 

 Is. (Nat. Coll. U). 



Dr. Sharpe (5) mentions also the Sula Islands as a locahty for this species, 

 without, however, refen-ing to specimens. 



This Pied Cuckoo-shrike is most like L. terat of the Philippines, Borneo, 

 Java, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and Nicobars (Sharpe 5), a species which 

 may readily be distinguished from the Celebes form by its having the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts grey instead of vrhite. Specimens from Mindanao may 

 thus be separated from Celebes ones at a glance. L. timorensis, which also 

 occurs in Celebes, may be known by its grey rump and upper tail-coverts, by 

 its having only a very narrow white line extending from the nostril and lores 

 over the eye, instead of a broad superciliary stripe from the nostril and lores 

 to over the ear-coverts, and by the pattern of its wing below, where the white 

 occupies the whole inner web of most of the primaries, extending in the longer 

 quills as far as the ends of the secondaries, while the free ends of the quills 

 are blacker than in L. leucopygialis It looks as if a sharper separation of the 

 pigment had taken place in the wing oi L. timorensis, the black being condensed 

 in the outer webs and distal ends of the quills. In this respect L. timorensis is 

 a more highly specialized species than L. leucopj/yialis and terat; in respect of 

 its white rump L. leucupygialis is more highly specialized than terat. 



L. leiicopijf)ialis is a common bird in North Celebes. It is very active, forms 

 flocks, its call being a protracted whistle or a loud chirping cry (Meyer 6). 



The curious correspondence of the coloration of this species with Graucalns 

 bicolor — sex with sex — has already been noted under that species. It has 



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