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I also had the opportunity of studying carefully the types 

 of L. raddei, Dresser and L. varius, Zarudny. As the 

 completion of my work on these forms will require some 

 months more, a brief account of some of the results 

 obtained may be of interest. 



" I came to the final conclusion that L. raddei, L. in- 

 fuscatus, L. elaeagni, cannot be separated specifically from 

 L. phtenicur aides, Sev., as they are connected together by 

 intermediate specimens, whose existence cannot be ex- 

 plained by hybridization. I am of opinion that two more 

 forms, quite as distinct as those just named, should be 

 established, and that some forms formerlj- described 

 should be considered as synonyms of others. My notion 

 of L. phoenicuroides and its variations is as follows " : — 



LaNIUS PHfENICUROIDES PHffiNICUEOIDES, SeV. (= LaniuS 



phamicur aides romanoivi, Bogd.). 



Adtdt male : Brownish-rusty above^ with a very dark and 

 bright pileum and greyer interscapuliiim ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail uniformly bright rufous. 



Lanius ph(enicuroides karelini, Bogd. 



Adult male : Brownish-grey or pure grey above ; tail- 

 coverts and tail as in the preceding. 



Lanius phcenicttroides var. bogdanowi, Bianchi (^ 

 Lanius varius, Zarudny). 



Adult male : Similar to L. jph. 'plioenicur aides, but with 

 the tail-feathers parti-coloured, all the feathers being pro- 

 vided with black subterminal markings, and with the 

 middle tail-feathers usually darker towards the tip ; the 

 rufous colour is very often more or less replaced by white, 

 spreading from the base of the tail. 



" A variable form, in my opinion only a type of personal 

 variation of L. ph. phcenicur aides. The type is a very 

 extreme specimen in very worn and sunburnt plumage ; 

 the type of L, varius is one of the least prominent 



