644 AVES. 



Co., vol. i, p. 166, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 403, 1862; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 26 ; G. King, t. c, p. 215 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 375 ; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. ii, p. 473, 1874; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., vol. xlv, 1876, 

 p. 71 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 29. 

 CoUurio obscurioT, Hodgs., in Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1849. 



a. J Katha, 19th January 1868. 



b. J Shuaygoomyo, 21st January 1868. 



c. $ Sawady, 28th February 1875. 



The dark cinereous of the back has a slightly olive tinge above the rufous 

 area of its lower part and the upper tail-coverts. In a young male there is no 

 black streak in front of the eyes, and the lores are rather whitish, and there is a 

 pale streak over and behind the eye. The ear-coverts are reddish-brown. The 

 cinereous of the upper surface has a faint olive tinge throughout, and the rufous 

 of the lower back and tail-coverts spreads further upwards. The central tail 

 feathers are reddish-brown, and the lateral ones are of a paler tint. They are all 

 faintly and finely barred, and the two longest feathers have pale rufous tips. The 

 wings are dull brown, and a few of the secondaries have rufous margins. The chin 

 and throat are dirty white, and the sides of the throat and neck and the breast are 

 white, with a tinge of rufous with narrow, wavy, dull brown transverse bands. 

 The rufous is brightest on the sides of the chest and the abdomen. The abdomen, 

 flanks and lower tail- coverts are rufous white, the rufous being strongest on the 

 flanks. 



139. Lanius niguiceps, Eranklin. 



CoUurio nigriceps, Franld., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1831, p. 117; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 392, 1869; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 172. 

 Lanins nigriceps, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. x, p. 236, 1839 ; id.. 111. Ind. Orn., pi. xvii, 1847 • 

 Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 290, t. 71, 1847; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, 1849, p. 151; 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 164; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 166, 1854; Jerdon', 

 B. Ind., vol. i, p. 404, 1862; Beavan, Ibis, 1870, p. 311; Hume, Stray Feathers,' p. 473,' 

 1874, p. 29. 



a. $ Bhamo, 6th February 1868. 

 I. Z Bhamo, 20th January 1875. 

 c. d. Bhamo, 10th and 20th February 1868. 



e. t Kamoonee, left bank of Tapeng river, 11th February 1875. 

 /. g. h. ? Ponsee, 11th and 16th March 1868. 

 i. Z Sanda, 28th July 1868. 



These birds and others from Cachar in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, have 

 the black extending a little further down the back than is usual in Bengal 

 specimens, and in an adult from the latter locality, the ashy band bordering the 

 black of the nape is present only in the faintest trace. The backs of freshly killed 

 Bengal adult specimens are more chestnut than rufous, but these Burmese and 

 Yunnan birds are slightly paler, and the ashy band in nearly all fades into the 

 black. 



