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white; irides, brown; bill, legs, and feet, black. Length, 

 about nine inches. The adult female is similar to the male, 

 but the colouration is duller. 



Pallas's Grey Shrike {Laniiis major, Pallas) is said to be a 

 fairly frequent autumn migrant to the British Isles, and to 

 inhabit Siberia and Manchuria, south of about lat. 65°. 

 This shrike closely resembles Lanius excubUo7\ but has 

 only one white wing bar, whilst the latter has two. 7'he 

 adult sexes are similar in colour. 



Cbiffchaff. 



The Chiffchaff {Phylloscopiis ritfus, licchstein), which is a 

 spring migrant to the British Islands, is also a summer 

 visitant to Northern temperate Europe, spending the winter 

 on the shores of the Mediterranean. The adult in summer 

 has the general colour of the upper parts olive-green; 

 rump, yellowish-green; tail, brown, edged with yellowish- 

 green; wings, brown, with yellowish-green edgings; cye- 



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