BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 241 



(?)iojuus major (not of rallas) Cab.vnis, Joiirn. fiir. Oru., 1884, 251 (Chilcat R., 



Alaska).— ScH ALOW, Auk, i, 1884, 292 (Chilcat R.). 

 Laniiis boreaUs inrirtus Grinxell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 1, Nov. 14, 



1900, 54 (Kowak R., Alaska; coll. J. Grinnell); no. 3, 1902, 61 (south to 

 Nicasio, ^hiivsville, and Calaveras Co., California, in winter); Condor, iii, 



1901, 22 (Kadiak, Alaska). — Allen, Auk, xviii, 1901, 177 (republication of 

 ori<r. descr. ). 



LANIUS LUDOVICIANUS LUDOVICIANUS Linnaeus. 

 LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 



Adults (sexes alike).— Above plain slate-gra}^, darkest (approaching 

 slate-color) on pileum. fading gradually into paler gray (no. to no. 8) 

 on upper tail-coverts and into white on outermost sciipulars; lores, 

 orbital region, and auricular region black, forming a conspicuous 

 longitudinul patch on sides of head; the gray of forehead paling 

 slightly along upper margin of the loral portion of this black patch; 

 wings and tail black; secondaries tipped with white; a white patch at 

 l)a,se of primaries (except the outermost), this occupying both webs, 

 and more extended but less sharpl}' defined on inner webs than on 

 outer; inner web.>* of secondaries dusky next to shaft for entire length, 

 the marginal portion broadly" and rather abruptly grayish white on 

 t)asal portion but becoming narrower and less definite terminally; 

 rectrices (except two middle pairs*) broadly tipped with white, this 

 greatly increasing in extent to the outermost, which is white for nutch 

 the greater part, only a subbasal spot on inner web and part of shaft 

 being blackish; entire under parts, including malar region, white, the 

 sides and flanks faintly shaded with gi'ay. the chest also sometimes 

 with a veiy faint shade of the same; 1)111, legs, and feet ])lack; iris 

 brown. 



V>ni)ig. — Above browmish gray (smoke gray), the pileum and hind- 

 neck narrowh' l)arred or vermiculated with narrow lines of darker 

 gra}' and broader ones of pale buffy or brownish gray; scapulars, lesser 

 and middle wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts with more 

 distinct narrow dusky bars and with the paler ])ars bi'oader. more butl'y ; 

 greater wing-coverts and secondaries tipped with grayish buffy, var}'- 

 ing to pale cinnamon; ch(\st, sides, and flanks pale buffy grayish or 

 grayish bufly nurrowh' barred or vermiculated with dusky; otherwise 

 simila?' to adults but with black patch on sides of head less shaiply 

 detinod and duller black (especially the loral portion), white portion 

 of tail more or less strongly (.sometimes deeply) tinged with bufl or 

 cinnamon, and with bill and feet brownish. 



« Occupying more than half the width of the web. 



''The pair next to the middle usually have a small white terminal spot. 



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