Genus ENNEOCTONUS Boie, 1826.

The only species of Enneoctonus known to occur in the Philippine Islands may be recognized by its barred mantle.

577. ENNEOCTONUS TIGRINUS (Drapiez).
TIGER SHRIKE.

Sulu (Platen). Korea, China, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo.

“Adult male (summer plumage).—Crown of head, hind neck, and upper part of the mantle clear bluish gray; mantle, scapulars, the whole back and the upper tail-coverts reddish brown, each feather with several transverse black bars; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the rest and the secondary quills chestnut-brown with submarginal black lines; primary quills uniform brown, with no white at the base whatever; tail uniform chestnut-brown, with faint subterminal bars and whitish tips to the outer rectrices; a frontal band, the loral and ocular region, and the ear-coverts deep black; all the under parts white, washed with cream-color, especially on the throat, breast, and edge of wings; some of the under wing-coverts with submarginal blackish brown bars. ‘Bill bluish black; feet pale leaden, with a fleshy tinge; iris blackish brown.’ (Swinhoe.)

“Winter plumage.—The gray of the head and neck is washed with brownish; the frontal band and ear-coverts are brownish black, so that the head has lost its beautiful appearance; cheeks, sides of breast, and flanks with a few subterminal brown vermiculations; bill and feet horny brown. Length, 168; culmen, 19; wing, 81; tail, 76; tarsus, 22.8.

“Adult female.—Very similar to the adult male in winter plumage, but generally with ‘a large creamy patch on the lores, and a white half-eyebrow in rear of the eye-line’ (Swinhoe); bill bluish black. The measurements are the same as in the male.