Birds of Celebes: Laniidae. 
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pleasing exterior; neatly lined with finer grasses and stalks. In sliane a half a-lohe 
with tolerably thick walls. Diam. 14, internal diam. 7, depth 5 cm Tael' 7,1 
JNests in pine-woods in the province of Kiangsi (David b 11] 
Breeding season^ Spring and early summer. Known as a breeding species from Ussuri-land 
to the Yang tse (Taez. /.• 2, h 6, Styan .9, Swinh. i I) 
Distribution Amurland (Schrenck ^ i); Ussuri-land (Dyhowski & Godlewski k 2); Askold 
Ich (Dybowski d); Corea (Campbell h 2d); Japan (Pryer & Jouy b 24)] China 
etc.); Tenasserim (Davison & 72, 
^ietp’ ill (^'^''^ace b III 4, Beccari b 15, Modigl. b 25); Nias (Kanne- 
feietei 73,; Java (Kuhl, Plume and Junghiihn 5, H. O. Forbes 6 7d); Banka 
8 7oi-^N^Clt’ 5 73, etc. d); Sooloo Is. (Platen 
8, 7^), N. Celebes — Manado (Meyer b 9, b 14, b 19). 
The Thick-billed Shrike of Eastern Asia is included in the Celebes list on 
individual killed by Meyer near Manado in April 
b fh possess two Shrikes, this and L. ludonensis, 
M B°- simply winter migrants from the north and west' 
■tr Buttikofer (5) suggests the possible identity of the Dresden specimen with 
^.luaoneiisis; this is not the case, nor indeed is there anything remarkable in 
toly^'bTrr'''''' migra- 
L. ti^nnus is, as Seebohm remarks, a very rare bird in Japan (b 24)- 
for/l ! "°T “ •>“* seems to ha.e 
hm h ^«o“mon bird further north in] Ussuri-land; in the neigh- 
■ T>ayid, it comes only in summer and alwLs 
in small numbers, but it is not rare in the central provinces and particularly 
Kiangsi, wTiere it breeds and where I have often found it in the pine woodi 
Jtva piovince . At Kiukiang on the Yangtse about 30® N., Mr 
heed” lie v'" t ” ““y- 
i*'" .y"""* y" “'•‘f “ y“ly” « appeals oo the whole that the 
Formosa' thT”"! °] breeding-grounds of the species, 
yet so fo “ipants to the rhilippines, has not 
Pdawan it“ Tl specimens; in the Philippines, inolnding 
other nab, ^ 7“" “ y"‘ ^bat is yet known about the bird in 
aJd Sun” ,,. “ “ “'^y ™‘a'- ‘a Malacca 
and snocmir’ somewhat smaller numbers in Java, is rare in Borneo, 
nossibU ■ ^ (-elebes. It seems that this species avoids as much as 
fhe Maw'p^ "" r™'' 
an ft Dip • ^ Sumatra, Java, and in smaller numbers, Borneo, now 
L. 7MdoHe»srin"ifs islands. 
. ™igiations offers some curious points in contrast. 
thp no evidence to show that L.tigrinus breeds in the East Indies, on 
the other hand the recorded dates of specimens tend to prove that it is Lr^ 
y m the northern wrnter, when rt is absent irr China. These dates relate 
