LANIIDiE. 



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Length nine inches and a quarter : the beak and 

 legs black, with part of the lower mandible white : 

 the secondary quills, rump, tail-feathers, and abdo- 

 men, fasciated with fulvous. ^ 



Sp. 9. Th. niger. Zool. Journ. {Such.) i. 559. 

 Th. 7iiger, capite cristata ; remigibus sub-brunnescentihu sobscure 

 suhfasciatis. 



Black Bush-Shrike with the head crested ; the quills obscurely 

 fasciated with brownish. 



Length eight inches and a half: the crest is of a 

 very deep hue : the legs and beak black. 



Sp. 10. Th. mystaceus. 



Lanius mystaceus. Shaxv^ v. xii.p. 298, pi. 40. 

 Sp. 11. Th. atricapillus. 



Lanius atricapillus. Shaxjo, v. vii.p. 336. 



B. Cauda rotundatd. B. Tail rounded. 



Sp. 12. Th. bicolor. Zool. Journ. (Swainson.) v. ii. p. 86. 

 Th. crisiatus supra niger ; albus infra; tectricium apicibus, remi- 



gium marginibus, cauddque Jasciis interriiptis albis. 

 Crested Bush-Shrike above black ; beneath white ; with the tips 



of the wing-coverts, margins of the quills, and interrupted 



bands on the tail white. 

 Black and white Shrike. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 22. 



Length eight inches : irides crimson : beak strong, 

 ashy-black, considerably compressed, but narrowed 

 towards its extremity : the head is much crested : 

 the ground-colour of all the upper parts, including 

 the ear, sides of the head, and neck, is deep black, 

 and of the under parts pure white : the wings are 

 black, with two bands of white across the tips of the 

 coverts : the quills are also margined externally with 

 white : the spurious coverts black : tail deep black, with 



