THE PHILIPPINE SHEIKE. 
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it at Rangoon, and the latter also at Tonghoo and in Karennee. Mr. 
Davison found it rarely in Tenasserim as far south as Amherst, and Capt. 
Bingham got it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
This Shrike does not apparently breed in British Burmah. It is absent 
from the Province from the middle of March to the end of June, and it 
probably breeds in some of the mountainous portions of South-western 
China. 
It has been observed by Dr. Anderson in the country east of Bhamo and 
by Col. Godwin- Austen in Munipoor. 
This handsome little Shrike is found in most parts of the country in 
gardens, secondary jungle and the outskirts of cultivation. It takes up its 
post on a naked branch, a stump, a rail or even on a telegraph-wire, and 
darts down to the ground to capture grasshoppers and other large insects, 
generally returning to the same perch several times in succession. It has 
the usual loud and harsh notes of the Shrikes. 
239. LANIUS LUCIONENSIS. 
THE PHILIPPINE SHRIKE. 
Lanius lucionensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 135; Wald. Ihis, 1867, p. 215 ; Hume, S. F. 
ii. p. 199 ; Wald. Trans. Z. Soc. ix. p. 171, pi. xxix. f . 1 ; David et Oust. Ois. 
Chine, p. 99 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 378 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 91. 
Description. — Male and female. The forehead and a distinct supercilium 
greyish white ; the feathers immediately at the base of the upper mandible, 
the lores and a broad streak passing through the eyes and covering the 
ear-coverts black; the whole upper plumage and scapulars liver-brown, 
tinged with rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail brown, tinged 
with rufous and tipped paler chin, throat and sides of neck white ; 
remainder of lower plumage pale buff ; lesser coverts white ; the remaining 
coverts and all the wing dark brown, edged with rufescent, more broadly 
so on the tertiaries than elsewhere. 
The young have the upper plumage brown closely barred with black, and 
the lower plumage yellowish or buffy white ; all the feathers except those 
on the chin, throat, centre of breast and abdomen barred with dark brown. 
Legs and feet dull leaden blue ; the upper mandible horny brown, edged 
whitish near the gape ; the terminal third of the lower mandible horny 
brown ; the basal two thirds bluish or fleshy white ; irides brown. ( Davison.) 
Length 8 inches, tail 3*8, wing 3' 5, tarsus 1, bill from gape '9. 
The Philippine Shrike was obtained by Mr. Davison in the extreme south 
of Tenasserim, where he says it is only a rare straggler. 
