Lanius nasutus Scopoli, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 85;
Oates, Bds. Brit. Burmah (1883), 1, 248; Whitehead, Ibis (1899),
226 (habits).
Lanius cephalomelas Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 269.
Cephalophoneus nasutus Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 287; Oates
and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 289; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 92.
Ta-rat San Diego, Manila.
Bohol (Steere Exp., McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester,
McGregor); Cebu (Meyer, Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor);
Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Everett, Bourns
& Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch); Masbate (Bourns &
Worcester); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Bourns &
Worcester); Mindoro (Everett); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns
& Worcester, Keay); Panay (Sonnerat, Steere Exp., Bourns &
Worcester); Samar (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Steere Exp.,
Bourns & Worcester, Celestino). Northern Borneo.
Adult.--Entire top and sides of head, hind neck, and sides of neck
black; mantle light gray shading into ocherous buff on scapulars, back,
rump and tail-coverts; under parts white; sides and flanks ocherous
buff; crissum light buff; thighs white; wings and tail black; inner
webs of wing-quills edged with white; fifth to eighth primaries with
a small white spot near base of outer webs; inner secondaries more
or less edged and tipped with pale buff or white; edge of wing, of
first alula quill, and of first and second primaries white; rectrices
narrowly tipped with pale buff or white, two outermost pairs edged
with pale buff or white; all the rectrices fringed with pale buff at
base. Iris brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 240 to 245. A
male from Siquijor measures: Wing, 88; tail, 125; culmen from base,
18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 26. A female, wing, 88; tail, 124;
culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 26.
"Quite common in some localities, especially in Siquijor, but
less abundant than O. lucionensis. Habits the same, and frequents
precisely the same localities. Three males from Mindanao average:
Length, 240; wing, 88; tail, 120; culmen, 21; tarsus, 26; middle
toe with claw, 23. Two females from Culion, length, 228; wing, 87;
tail, 113; culmen, 20; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 23. Iris
dark brown to black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)