FLYCATCHERS 343 



One near Budleigh Salterton, July 22, 1894: MatbeAv, 



" Suppl. Birds Devon," 1895, p. 12. 

 One, Mid-Kent, May 15, 1897 : Froliawk, Field, May 29, 



1897; Zool, 1897, p. 427. 



SOUTHERN GREY SHRIKE. Lanius meridionalis, 

 Temminck. Length, 9 in. ; bill, 0-75 in. ; wing, 4'25 

 in. ; tarsus, 1*25 in. 



Hab. South of France, Spain, and Portugal. 



One, Colchester, Nov. 1875: Bree, Field, Nov. 13, 1875. 

 The recorder had European skins for comparison. 



Obs. The sexes are alike in colour, except that 

 in the female the vi'hite edgings of the scapulars 

 are perhaps not quite so broad as in the male 

 (Sharpe). The pink tone of the underparts noticed 

 by Mr. Saunders as characteristic of this species is 

 perhaps only assumed during the breeding season, 

 as is the case with the Goosander and some of the 

 Terns and Gulls. 



Fam. MUSCICAPID^. 



RED -BREASTED FLYCATCHER. Muscicapa parva, 

 Bechstein. Length, 5 in. ; bill, 4 in. ; wing, 2*5 

 in. ; tarsus, 0-65 in. 



Hah. A summer visitor to St. Petersburg, North- 

 Eastern Germany, and South Central Europe, Southern 

 Russia, and Persia. Winters in Northern India and 

 China. 



One, Constantine, near Falmouth, Jan. 24, I860 : Rodd, 



Zool, 1863, p. 8444 ; " Birds of Cornwall," p. 26. 

 Two, Scilly, Oct. 1863 : Rodd, op. cit., p. 11, and Ibis, 1861., 



