KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 41 
61. Otomela cristata. Linn. — The Brown Shrike. 
Lanius cristatus: Williamson I p. 43; Robinson & Kloss p. 69; Gyldenstolpe Il; Gyldenstolpe III p. 167; 
Grant p. 77. 
& Chum Poo *% 1914. L = 190 mm. W = 87 mm.; T= 89 mm.; C = 14 mm. — J Koh Lak 
21/; 1915. L = 177 mm.; W = 85 mm.; T = 88 mm. — Irides: dark brown, Bill: black. Legs: brownish black. 
Probably only a migratory bird to Siam where it is found, though always rare, 
both in the Northern parts of the country and in the Siamese Malaya. 
A specimen shot as late as on the 2nd of May 1914 near Chum Poo, a small place 
in the Meh Tha valley south-east of Chieng Mai, may possibly indicate that it even breeds 
in Northern Siam. This specimen is in full summer plumage with the under parts of a 
very distinct buff colour, and the white supercilium is very well-marked. 
The other specimen, also a male, has still some crossbars on the flanks and on the 
lower breast, and the buff colour on the under parts of the body is only faintly indi- 
cated, these parts being almost white. 
Another specimen — a young female — has the rump feathers barred with dark 
brown. Even the cheeks are also barred, as well as the breast and the under parts of the 
body, leaving only the middle of the belly and the under tail-coverts unbarred. 
Fam. Prionopide. 
62. Hemipus picatus. Sykes. — The Black-backed Pied Shrike. 
Hemipus picatus: Miller p. 363; Robinson & Kloss p. 69; Gyldenstolpe I p. 32; Gyldenstolpe III p. 167; Ro- 
binson I p. 108. 
dew Locality Date Length | Wing Tail Culmen 
mm. mm mm mm 
oa Koon Tan | 79/5 1914 136 59 61,5 11,2 
Q Koh Lak 27111914 | 130 59 60 12 
Q Koon Tan 28/5 1914 135 60 61,6 11,5 
oa Koon Tan | #/o 1914} .128 61,5 61,5 12,1 
roa Pa Hing 41914] 126 60,5 59 12 
a Koon Tan | ™/51914| 130 64,5 62 il 
oe Pak Koh 16/41914] 130 63 60 11 
Q Pak Koh 15/,1914 | 123 62,6 59,5 11,8 
Trides: blackish brown. Bill: black. Legs: black. 
Commonly distributed in scrub-jungle in the North of Siam. It also occured, though 
not quite as common, at the neighbourhood of Koh Lak in the Siamese Malaya. Even 
as far south as in Bandon and in some other places further south in the Malay Penin- 
sula this species has been met with, but south of these places and on the Sunda Islands 
it is replaced by the allied Hemipus obscurus Horse. which is characterized by the lacking 
of a white bar along the wing. 
K. BV. Vet, Akad. Handl. Band 56. No 2. 
