Birds of Celebes: Laniidae. 
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red-ochre. The inner edgings of the quills in the Sangi bird incline to reddish 
white, the under tail-coverts tend to a saffron tint. 
Ihe genus Colluricinda , which Dr. Sharpe divides into Colluricinda and 
Pinarolestes, belongs to Papuasia, Australia, and the Fiji and Tonga Islands. 
Sangi fomis an unexpected addition to its range, though its occurrence there is 
not more remarkable than its presence in Fiji and Tonga. 
GENUS LANIUS L. 
Bill strong, much deeper than broad across the nostril, the tomia furnished 
with a tooth and notch, the nostril small, roundish, ossified, partly hidden by 
projecting plumes and hairs from the forehead; the tail as long or longer than 
the wing, graduated; 3“^^ 4*'* and 5*’^ primaries the longest, the F* about V 2 the 
length of the 2”«; tarsus about as long as the middle toe and claw, or a little 
onger, anteriorly scutellated; no brilliant colours in the plumage; young marked 
with cross ^ bars, often seen also in the adult female. The genus inhabits Europe, 
- trica, Asia as far as Celebes, and North America; some species migratory. 
152. LANIUS TIGRINUS Drapiez. 
Thick-billed Shrike. 
Lanius tigrinus') (l) Drap., Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. XIH, 1828, 523; (2) Blytli Cat B 
R t S Iss? f2D Everett, J. Str. Br. 
T Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. B. 1889, I, 470; (8) W Bias 
A f. O. 1^890, 139; Hagen, T. Ned. Aard. Genoots. 1890, (2) VII 148 
Styan, Ibis 1891, 348; (10) Hartert, Kat. Vg. Senckenb. Mas. 1891 90- ( 1) De La 
a. Lanius ferox (1) Drapiez, Diet. Class. H. N. 1818, 523 (= Q fide Bn) 
(^1 w- 4- Buff. ,8;.4, U 
ihh 1871 73- ’1 ’ J"- 164; (7) Wald., 
.4, Q® _Swmb., P. z. 8. 1871, 375; (9) Meyer, J. f. O. 1873, 405- 
& Dn &Oiist., Ois. Chine 1877, 97; (12) Hume 
Bnf‘ 879 mo 91; ’(L)Mejer, 
B)is 1881 ’ ^nn. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, XVI, 210; (16) NichoL, 
52 7791 irl T V O ' ’ • Oes. Wien 1883, 
Oates, B. Brit. Burmab 1883, I, 253' 757) 
^Vho believed tbaftle^^:! and 
for the stretching of a badly prepared skin, nor does h4grie thTcarUestVarof’'D‘l-’apier* 
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