Birds of Celebes: Laniidae. 4Q3 



red-ochre. The inner edgings of the quills in the Sangi bird incline to reddish 

 white, the under tail-coverts tend to a saffron tint. 



The genus Colluricincla , which Dr. Sharp e divides into Colluricincla and 

 Pinarolestes, belongs to Papuasia, Australia, and the Fiji and Tonga Islands. 

 Sangi forms an unexpected addition to its range, though its occurrence there is 

 not more remarkable than its presence in Fiji and Tonga. 



GENUS LANIUS L. 



Bill strong, much deeper than broad across the nostril, the tomia furnished 

 with a tooth and notch, the nostril small, roundish, ossified, partly hidden by 

 projecting plumes and hairs from the forehead; the tail as long or longer than 

 the wing, graduated ; 3"^, 4*'' and 5"" primaries the longest, the 1 ^^ about '/2 the 

 length of the 2°^; tarsus about as long as the middle toe and claw, or a little 

 longer, anteriorly scutellated ; no .brilliant colours in the plumage ; young marked 

 with cross bars, often seen also in the adult female. The genus inhabits Europe, 

 Africa, Asia as far as Celebes, and North America; some species migratory. 



^ 152. LANIUS TIGRINUS Diapiez. 



Thick-billed Shrike. 



Lanius tigrinus') (1) Drap., Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. XDI, 1828, 523; (2) Blytli, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. 1842, 152; (3) Jerd., Ibis 1872, 116; (4) Gadow, Cat. B. VHI, 

 1883, 289; (5) Biittik., Notes Leyd. Mus. 1887, IX, 53; (6) Everett, J. Str. Br. 

 E. A. S. 1889, 121; (7) Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind. B. 1889, I, 470; (8) W. Bias., 

 J. f. O. 1890, 139; (8'"') Hagen, T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890, (2) VH, 148; (9) 

 Styan, Ibis 1891, 348; (10) Hartert, Kat. Vg. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 90; (11) De La 

 Touche, Ibis 1892, 410; (12) Sharps, Ibis 1894, 259; (13) Biittik, Notes Leyden 

 Mus. 1896, XVrn, 183. 



a. Lanius ferox (1) Drapiez, Diet. Class. H. N. 1818, 523 (= Q fide Bp.). 



b. Lanius magnirostris (1) Less., Voy. de Be'langer 1834, II, 251; (2) id., Cpl. Buff. 1834, II, 



415; (III) Wald., Ibis 1867, 220—223, pi. VI, fig. 1 (cT), fig. 2 ($); (4) id., ib. 1869, 

 242; (5) Gray, HL.';i8B9, I, 393, Nr. 5972; (6) Blyth, Ibis 1870, 164; (7) Wald., 

 Ibis 1871, 173; (8) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, 375;. fSj Meyer, J. f. 0. 187:i, 405; 

 (10) Swiiili., Ibis 1875, 115; (11) David & Oust, Ois. Chine 1877, 97; (12) Hume 

 & Dav., Str. F. 1878, VI, 203; (13) Hume, Str. F. 1879, VIH, 91; (14) Meyer, 

 Ibis 1879, 129; (15) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, XVI, 210; (16) Niehol., 

 Ibis 1881, 150; (17) id., ib. 1883, 252; (IS) W. Bias., Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1883, 

 52; (19) id., J. f. 0. 1883, 148; (20) Gates, B. Brit. Bvu'mab 1883, I, 253; (21) 

 Seeb., Ibis 1884, 37; (22) Tristr., t. c. 402; (23) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 194; 

 (24) Seeb., B. Japan. Emp. 1890, 104; (25) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1891, 

 (2) Xn, 57; (26) Campb., Ibis 1892, 238. 



i! Dr. Gadow (4) appears to us to be perfectly right in adopting this name. Lord Walden rh III), 

 who believed that the L. tigrinus a-nd ferox of Drapiez could uot be the same bird, did not make allowance 

 for the stretching of a badly prepai-ed skin, nor does he give the earliest date of Drapiez. 



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