LANIIDiE. 1.^7 



the females the crown of the head, which is slightly 

 crested, together with all the upper plumage, is of a 

 deep and light rufous : the wings and tail are the 

 same, and unspotted : the sides of the head are 

 black, freckled with minute white dots ; all the under 

 plumage, from the chin to the vent, is crossed by 

 numerous narrow bands of deep black and white, 

 arranged alternately. In the male these bands are 

 carried quite round the upper part of the neck, but 

 in the female they are, in this part, almost obsolete : 

 the male is farther distinguished by the crown being 

 glossy, black, and unspotted : the tail is moderate, 

 but the ends of the feathers are not very obtuse : 

 tarsi moderate, ash-coloured. 



Sp. 15. Th. torquatus. Zool, Journ. (Svoainson.) ii. 89. 



Th. griseus infrh albescens ; jugulo jjectoreque lineis nigris Jas' 



ciatis ; alls riifis^ immaculatis ; caudd nigra, albo maculatd. 

 Greyish Bush-Shrike beneath whitish ; throat and breast banded 

 by black lines ; wings rufous, immaculate ; tail black, spotted 

 , with white. 



Allied to the former, but less : length five inches 

 and three-quarters : beak less, and more compressed : 

 the crown, which is not crested, is covered by a deep 

 black patch, paler in front, and extending to the 

 hind-head : the general tint of the upper plumage, 

 and also the sides of the head, neck, and flanks, is 

 ashy-grey : the wings are rufous above, and unspotted : 

 the tail is rounded, the feathers narrow, slender, and 

 obtuse at their extremities : the middle pair wholly 

 black, the vent more or less crossed by interrupted 

 bars of white, and tipped with the same colour: the 



