158 LANIID.E. 



throat, sides of the head, and middle of the body, are 

 whitish, and unspotted ; but round the breast are ten 

 or twelve transverse bands of black lines : tarsi rather 

 long and cinereous : irides crimson. 



Sp. 16. Th. naevius. Zool. Joum. (Swainson.) ii. 90. 



Lanius naevius. Shatv, v. viii. p. 325. Leach, Zool. Misc. 

 pi. 17- — Lanius punctatus. Shaw, viii. 327. 

 Sp. 17. Th. ambiguus. Zool. Joum. {Swainson) ii. 91. 

 Th. supra cinereus infra pallidior ; vertice nigro ; rcmigium ni- 



grorum margine albo ; rectricium obtusarum ; apicibus Jas- 



cidque interruptd albis. 

 Bush-Shrike above cinereous, beneath paler ; with the crown 



black ; the quills black margined with white ; tail-feathers 



obtuse j the tips and a central interrupted band white. 



Rather longer than the last : length five inches 

 and three-quarters : the quills are deep black, margined 

 externally, except at their base, with white : the tail 

 is black, rounded, tipped with white, and obtuse ; 

 each feather in the middle having a pair of large 

 snowy oblong spots adjoining their margins : the 

 tarsi are one-tenth of an inch longer than in Th. 

 naevius : and the inner wing-coverts yellowish-white : 

 the spurious quills black. 



Sp. 18. Th. pileatus. Zool. Jour. (Swain.) ii. 91. 



Th. supra cinereus, infra pallidior ; uropygio pectorisque lateri- 



busfulvis ; vertice nigro ; remigum fuscorum margine testaceo ; 



rectricium acutarum, apicibus linedque marginali albis. 

 Bush-Shrike above cinereous, beneath paler; rump and sides of 



the breast fulvous; crown black; quills brown, margined with 



fulvous ; tail-feathers pointed, tips and marginal line white. 



Much allied to the last ; the beak, however, is a 

 little shorter, and the feathers across the beak, and 



