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PASSERES. 



76. LANIUS BUCEPHALUS. 



(BULL-HEADED SHRIKE.) 



Lanius hucephalus, Temminck and ScUegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 39 (1847) 



The Bull-headed Shrike has the head and nape rufous^ and the tail 

 for the most part grey. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonicaj Aves, pi. 14. 



The Bull-headed Shrike is a very common resident in Southern 

 .Japan, but to Yezzo it is only a summer visitor. There is an 

 example in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 450) ; and there are eight examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama. I have three examples collected by Mr. Heywood 

 Jones on Fuji-yama ; and Mr. Ringer has procured it at Nagasaki, 

 and has presented examples to the Norwich Museum from that 

 locality. 



The Bull-headed Shrike breeds in the valley of the Ussuri (Tac- 

 zanowskij Journ. Orn. 1876, p. 197), as well as in Japan and North 

 China, and winters in South China. 



Eggs in the Pryer collection resemble blue varieties of eggs of the 

 Woodchat. The nest is described as made of twigs and dead grass, 

 lined with finest grass (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1882, p. 146). 



77. PERICROCOTUS CINEEEUS. 

 (SIBERIAN MINIVET.) 

 Pericrocotus cinereus, Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 94. 



The Siberian Minivet is grey above and white below. The fore- 

 head is white, the crown and nape black, and the wings and tail are 

 partly black and partly white. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Asia, ii. pi. 11. 



It is rather remarkable that the Siberian Minivet has not been 

 recorded from Yezzo. I have an example collected by Mr. Heywood 

 Jones on Fuji-yama, and in the Pryer collection are five examples 

 from the same locality. 



This species also breeds in Manchuria, whence examples have been 

 sent by Dybowski from the mouth of the Ussuri River ; and passes 

 through China on migration to winter in the Philippine Islands, 

 Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peniiisida. 



