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LANIUS RUTILUS. THE WOODCHAT SHRIKE. 



WOODCHAT. WOOD SHRIKE. 



Fig. 252. 



Lanius rutilus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 70. 



Woodchat. Mont. Orn. Diet. Woodshrike. Supp. 



Pie-grieche rousse. Lanius rufus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 147. 



Woodchat. Lanius rufus. Selb. Illustr. I. 153. 



Lanius rufus. Woodchat. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 96. 



Male with the upper part of the head and the hind-neck brown- 

 ish-red, the back black, the scapulars ichite, the rump grey, the 

 wings black, the base of the primaries and the tips of the secon- 

 daries white, the tail black excepting the outer feathers, the basal 

 half of the next and its tip, with those of the rest, which are 

 white ; a brand black frontal band, margined anteriorly with 

 white ; a black cheek-band ; the lower parts white. Female 

 with the head and neck didl red ; the back brownish-black, the 

 lower parts greyish-white, with transverse brownish lines. Young 

 reddish-brown above, brownish-white with transverse lines be- 

 neath. 



Male. — The Woodchat Shrike is much inferior in size to 

 the species last described, which it however resembles in form, 



