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Title: Birds
Identifier: cu31924000100325 (find matches)
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1911; Blandford, William Thomas, 1832-1905
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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LANIUS. 459 The Grey Shrikes, of which there are four representatives in India, are very numerous and are not easily distinguished. The four Indian species, however, are sufficiently distinct and may be recognized without difficulty. The following species may hereafter be found to occur within our limits :—(1) L. minor, a small species with the lower plumage'in the adult tinged with pink, and with a very small first primary, less than a third of the length of the second. Swinhoe obtained this species at Kandahar. (2) L. grimmi, a pale desert form, very light ashy grey above, the lores whitish and the eye-band pale brown ; the tail white at the base as in L, homeyeri • the basal halves of the inner webs of the secondaries white, the remainder of each feather brown, not black. A specimen was obtained by Blanford at Bahu Keldt in Persian Baluchistan, in February. Other forms may not im- probably be found in Sind and the Punjab, as the Shrikes are great wanderers, but space will ilbt allow of their being noticed here. 469. Lanius lahtora. The Indian Orey Shrilce. Collurio lahtora, Syhes, P. Z. 8.1882, p. 86; Gray ^ Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. 32 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 174; id. JV. ^ F. p. 165. Lanius lahtora (Sykes),Blyth, Cat. p. 151 ; Sorsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 163 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 400; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 235: Butler, 8. F. iii, p. 462; BaU, 8. F. vii, p. 209; Hume, Cat. no. 256; Bm-nes, 8. F. ix, p. 216; Oadoio, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 252; Bai"nei, Birds Bom. p. 148; bates in Hume's N. S^ E. 2nd ed. i. p. 806. Dudiya latora, Hind.; 8afed latora, Hind, in the N.W.; Kach-hacha- latora, Beng.; Chinha beUincM, Pedda kiriti-gadu, Tel.
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Fig. 139 —Head of L. lahtora. Coloration. Porehead, lores, and a broad band through the eye and ear-coverts down the side of the neck black, th^ frontal portion indistinctly margined with white above; upper plumage bluish grey, paler on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; scapulars white ; the middle two pairs of tail-feathers black with narrow white tips ; the next two pairs very narrowly white at base and broadly white at tip; the outer two pairs white, with the shafts and some small portions of the webs near them black; wing-coverts black, the lesser series tipped with grey; primaries with the basal half white,

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