122 LANIADiE. 



Hab. — India generally ; not on the Malabar Coast and Bengal {Jerd.) 

 Occurs in Beloocliistanj South Afghanistan, Mooltan, in the Punjab, 

 throughout the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and 

 North Guzerat. A permanent resident in Sind. Breeds from April 

 to August, and like those of the preceding species of the genus, the 

 eggs are white, speckled all over, or near the larger end with rusty. 



Lanius cristatus, Linn: ; Edw. B. pi. 54 ; Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. 

 M. p. 100; Jerd. B, Ind. i. 406, No. 261; Sir. F. vii. pp. 269-270; 

 Murray, Hdbk., Zool. Sfo., Sind, p. 134. Lanius phosnicurus. Pall. 

 Walden, Ibis. 1867, pi. 6, fig. 2. Enneoctonus cristatus, Pr. B. Consp. 

 Av, p. 362. — The Brown Sheike. 



A broad band from the lores through the eyes to the ear-coverts, 

 dusky brown ; head, tail, and upper tail-coverts, rufous ; back rufous 

 brown ; streak over the eye white ; throat white ; rest of under surface 

 fulvous; wings dusky; the tertiaries margined rufous brown; tail 

 rufous brown. The young birds and females have the feathers of the 

 head, wings, and lower parts edged with brown and whitish ; bill horny 

 above, below pinkish white ; irides brown. 



Length.— 8-10 inches, wing 3-50, tail 3-92, bill at front 0-60. 



Hab. — India and Ceylon, Upper Pegu, Malacca, Penang, Bengal, and 

 the Malay Peninsula generally ; found in Sind, Kutch, Kattiawar and 

 Jodhpore, as a visitant in the course of its migration during September 

 and October. 



Lanius isabellinus. Hemp, and Ehr. Symb. Phys. 1828, Aves. fol. 

 e; StricUand, P. Z. 8. 1850, p. 217; Walden, Ibis. 1867, p. 224, pi. v. 

 fig. i. Lanius arenarius, Bly. J. A. S. B. 1846, xv. p. 304 ; Jeixl. B. Ind. 

 i. p. 407, No. 262; Ibis. 1872, p. 116; TfaZtleii, IW.5. 1867, p. 223; 

 Henderson and Hu'iiie, Lahore to Yarhand, p. 183, pi. iii. ; Hume, 8fr. 

 J", i. 174; ii. 331, vii. 210—270; Murray, Hdbk. , Zool, Ssc, Sind, 

 p. 136. — The Dbseet Sheike. 



Head and back of the neck bright riifous, seasonally duller; eye- 

 streak black or brownish ; a narrow white superciliary stripe ; lores 

 whitish ; wings pale brown ; the primaries narrowly edged, and the 

 coverts and secondaries broadly with rufescent ; beneath white, in 

 some specimens, the young bii-ds especially, rufous white with cres- 

 centic marks ; upper-tail coverts and tail brown with a rufous tinge 

 in some, the central tail feathers marked with irregular dusky bands ; 

 unf'er tail-coverts white ; bill dark brown ; legs dusky. 



Length. — 7'75 inches, wing 3' 75, tail 3"5. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, Beloochistan, S. Persia, Afghanistan, Arabia, 

 Khordafan, Turkistan, Abyssinia. In Sind it is common as a winter 

 visitant only. 



Sub-Family, MALACONOTINiE, Oa6.— Wood-Shrikes. 



Bill more lengthened and less compressed than in Lanius ; wings, 

 tail and tarsus shorter. 



