The Lesser Grev Shrike, The Red-Backed Shrike 9 



Family— LAXIID.^.. 



The Lesser Grey Shrike. 



Lioiiits )iii>iof, Gjiel. 



THIS is so rare a straggler, on migration, to tlie English coast, that I hesitated 

 to describe it in the present work. In 1883, Seebohm mentioned that 

 onl}^ four examples had been recorded; and, at the end of i88g, Howard 

 Saunders only enumerated six: it has since occurred at Dorking in 1886; near 

 Bournemouth in 1900; at Docking (Norfolk), in 1902; near Chichester in 1905; 

 near Whitby in 1906, and in Bedfordshire in 1907 : it is therefore, perhaps a pity 

 that a plate of it was not produced ; still if everj^ straggler to our coasts was 

 depicted it would add greatly to the expense of this work. 



Famtly—LANIID.'E. 



The Red-Backed Shrike. 



Lanius coUurio, LiNN. 



SEEBOHM observes that this species " is a summer visitor to the whole of the 

 continent of Europe up to lat. 64°, with the exception of the Spanish pen- 

 insula, where it is only an occasional straggler to the north-east. In Greece, 

 Asia Minor, and Palestine, it is only found in the pine-regions. Eastwards its 

 breeding range extends through Northern Persia, and throughout Turkestan as 

 far as the Altai Mountains. It passes through Asia Minor and North-east Africa 



