Lanius cristatus Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 93; Gadow,
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 8, 271; Dresser, Man. Palæarctic
Bds. (1902), 1, 240.
Otomela cristata Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 288; Oates and Reid,
Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 290; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 92.
Asia, from the Yenesei to Kamchatka and Dauria, and from
Yarkand to the east coast of China; wintering in India, Ceylon,
the Andamans, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, and as far south as
Java. (Dresser.) Borneo and Philippine Islands in winter. (Sharpe.)
"Male adult (Dauria).--Upper parts reddish brown, more rufous on the
crown; wings dark brown margined with rufous, the lesser wing-coverts
like the back; no white alar speculum; tail reddish brown, paler at
the tip; lores and a patch passing through the eye and extending
over the ear-coverts black; forehead, supercilium, cheeks, chin,
and throat white; rest of the under parts rufous-buff. Bill pale
plumbeous, the upper mandible from the nostril, and the tip of the
lower mandible dark horn; legs bluish brown; iris dark brown; eyelids
plumbeous. Culmen, 17.7; wing, 89; tail, 91; tarsus, 25.4.
"The female has the supercilium creamy white, the under parts
isabelline, the flanks rufous-buff, these and the breast faintly
vermiculated, and the young have the upper parts distinctly barred
and the under parts vermiculated with dark brown." (Dresser.)