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Show 596 MESSRS. DRESSER AND SHARPE [June 23, Lanius burra, Gray & Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. pl. 32 (1833). Lanius excubitor, var. 3, Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 7 (1822). Lanius minor, Riipp. Neue Wirb. p. 33 (1835, nee Gm.) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 62 (1845) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 33 (1856). Lanius orbitalis, Hempr. & Ehr. in mus. Berol. et Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 12 (1854, teste Finsch & Hartlaub). Lanius collurio (juv.), Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. p. 23 (1861) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 285 (err.). Lanius pallens, Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1851, p. 245 ; id. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1853, p. 258, pl. 23 (juv.). Collyrio pallens, Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). Lanius aucheri, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 294 ; Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 391. Lanius dealbatus, Defil. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 289 (ad.); Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 294; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 199; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 33 (1856); Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 27; Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 57; Taczan. J. f. O. 1870, p. 48. Lanius leuconotus, Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 147 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 33(1856). Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ost-Afr. p. 329 (1870). Collyrio hemileucurus, Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). Lanius fallax, Finsch & Hartl. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lanius meridionalis, Tristr. Ibis, 1862, p. 279; id. Ibis, 1867, p. 374 ( = L. lahtora, juv.) Lanius excubitor, Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 47 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 364 ( = L. lahtora, ad.) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, p. 12. Lanius leucopygus, Hempr. & Ehr. ; Heugl. Orn. N.-O. Afr. p. 480. Head and back pale French grey ; a narrow frontal line, extending backwards and including the loral space, the feathers above and below the eye, and the ear-coverts, which are somewhat elongated and extend on to the sides of the neck, deep black ; a faint line on the forehead above the black line, and extending over the eye, hoary white; scapulars French grey, broadly edged with white ; least wing-coverts grey ; rest of the wing-coverts black ; primaries black, slightly tipped with white, the basal half white, forming a distinct alar bar, secondaries black, broadly tipped, and the whole of the inner web white ; the outermost secondaries narrowly edged on the outer web with white; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; two centre feathers of the tail on each side black, slightly tipped with white, the next broadly tipped with white, the next still more broadly with white, with the basal portion and the outer web entirely white, the two exterior feathers entirely white with black shaft; the whole underparts pure white ; legs and bill blackish horn-colour. The above description is taken from a very old bird from the Punjab, and agrees with an equally old specimen from Algeria (L. hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl.) in the minutest particulars. Nor do these specimens alone coincide; for we have before us a large series, from localities ranging from Algeria to Palestine, which exactly |