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Birds of Celebes; Laniidae. 
c. Lanius strigatus (1) Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, 103. 
d. Enneoctonus crassirostris “Kulil” (1) Bp., Oonsp. 1850, I, 362; (2) Cab., Mus. Hein. 
1851, 72 (ex “v. Hasselt”). 
e. Otomela crassirostris (1) Bp., Eey. Zool. 1853, 437. 
f. Enneoctonus tigrinus fl) Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. 1854, I, 168; (2) Tacz., 
Fauna Oni. Sib. Orient. 1891, I, 494. 
g. Lanius phoenicurus (1) Scbrenck (nec Pall.), Reise Amurl. 1860, I, 384 — fide Wald, b 4. 
h. Lanius crassirostris (1) Pelz., Keise der Novara, Zool. 1865, 84. 
i. Lanius waldeni (I) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1870, 131, pi. XI. 
j. Lanius incertus (1) Swinli., P. Z. S. 1871, 376; (2) id.. Ibis 1875, 115. 
k. Otomela magnirostris (1) Schalow. J. f. 0. 1875, 142; (2) Tacz., J. f. O. 1876, 197; (3) 
Scbalow, t. c. 214; (4) Tacz., Bull. S. Z. France 1876, 167; (5) id., ib. 1880, 137; 
(6) id., J. f. O. 1881, 182. 
Z. Enneoctonus magnirostris (1) Heine & Ecliw., Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 189(i, 43. 
m. Lanius sp. (1) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 159 (Borneo — Mus. Leyd.; evidently 
the specimen mentioned by Biittikofer 5). 
Figures and descriptions. Walden bill-, Swinhoe i I\ David & Oustalet b 11; Hume 
& Davison b 12; Oates b 20, 7; Gadow 4; Taczanowski f 2. 
Adult male. Head above, neck and upper mantle grey; a baird extending narrowly 
across forehead at base of bill, lores, suborbital region, ear-coverts and 
a narrow mark above eye black; back, wing-coverts, rump and upper tail- 
coverts and inner quills russet, becoming brighter towards the tad-coverts, and 
rather closely baiTed with black, this colour running submarginally along the inner 
quills; the other quills dusky brown, extemally russet; tail browmish hazel, shovdng 
nearly obsolete traces of close bars, outer feathers narrowly tipped with wliite and having 
a subterminal brown Une; below white, the sides and flanks closely marked with 
wavy bars of blacldsh (Banlca, 2. Jan. 1861, v. d. Bossche: C 10565). Iris dark 
brown; feet pale blue; bill pale blue, black at the tip (H. 0. Forbes b 16). 
The amoimt of barring on the under surface seems to vary. Hume (b 12) 
describes an “old adult” from Tenasserim with the entire under 2 >arts white, excejjt 
a few feathers on the i^osterior flanks which are faintly rufescent and ban-ed. 
Female. Eesembles the male (Swinhoc bS, Scbalow k 1, I).& 0. b 11, Oates h 20), but the 
perfect j)lumage is probably assumed more slowly. Bill deep indigo-grey; feet and 
toes lavender-grey, dingy on soles (Swinhoe b 10). 
Young. Differs from the adult in having the head above russet, the shafts and adjacent 
portion of webs wliitish, giving a stziate-speckled appearance, traces of dark sub- 
terminal bars to the feathers; nasal plumes black; no black band on the sides of 
the head, lores whitish, ear-coverts whitish with dusky bars (Manado, Celebes, o’, 
A^mil 1871, Meyer; C 243). Bill bluish flesh-colour on basal portion, on apical 
portion deep brown. Legs and toes violet-leaden with yellowish grey soles and 
brownish nails (Swinh. b 10). 
Measurements. Wing 85; tail 80; bill from nostril 12; tarsus 22 mm. 
Eggs (Ussuri-land). Like those of L. collurio dead L. phmnicurus (ai'istatus), and correspond- 
ingly variable, i. e. the spots on one are grey, on another olive, on another again 
red, similarly arranged, but smaller. As is the case with the species mentioned, the 
eggs of the same sitting aic similar in colour. Measurements (3 clutches — 13 eggs: 
21.2 — 23.3 X 16.5 — 17.4 mm (Taczanowski k 2). 
Nest. The above nests were fastened among the twigs of low bush-growths, about two feet 
from the ground; somewhat closely and thickly built of stiff plant-stalks, one almost 
exclusively of heath-tvdgs, covered thickly with dry flowers, giving the nest a very 
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