LOGGER-HEAD SHRIKE. 261 



This species is from 10 to 10;^ inches in length, and 13 to 14 in 

 alar expansion. Above, the adult is pale cinereous, with the sides of 

 the head nearly white, crossed with a bar of black that passes from 

 the nostril through the eye to the middle of the neck. Beneath some- 

 times nearly ichite, at other times inclining to dusky, and marked 

 rather thickly with varied lines of a darker hue (each of the feathers 

 marked with 2 or 3 of these rounding transverse bars) . The wings are 

 black, with a spot of white on the primaries just below their coverts. 

 Rump and tail coverts light ash. Tail cuneiform of 12 feathers 

 (in the adult), the 2 middle ones only black (in the young 4), the 

 others are tipt with white, and the outer pair nearly all white. The 

 legs, feet, and bill towards its point, black. Iris bright hazel. In the 

 specific character it will be seen that the young differs so much from 

 the adult as to disannul the marks of specification. 



LOGGER-HEAD SHRIKE. 



(Lanius ludoviciamis, Lin. L. carolinensis, Audubon, pi. 57. [a fine 

 group]. Wilson, iii. p. 57. pi. 22. fig. 8. Philad. Museum, No. 



557.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark slate color; beneath white ; frontlet, wings, 

 and tail black ; the tail-feathers, with the exception of the 4 mid- 

 dle ones, partly white ; 2d primary longest ; the 1st and 5th equal. 



This species, much resembling the last, inhabits only 

 the warmer parts of the United States, residing and breed- 

 ing from North Carolina to Florida, where I have ob- 

 served it likewise in winter. It was also seen in the 

 table-land of Mexico by that enterprising naturalist and 

 collector, Mr. Bullock. According to Audubon, it always 

 affects the low countries, being seldom met with in the 

 mountainous districts, though they may happen merely 

 to intersect the parts it inhabits. Its farthest inland 

 migrations are only into the states of Mississippi and 

 Louisiana, where it is observed merely to pass the winter 

 months. 



