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lighter on the edges and base of lower 

 mandible. Tarsus black. 



Male. — Upper parts ruddy brown, 

 redder on the head and neck. Under 

 parts are marked with many delicate 

 lunules, or transverse bars. Ear 

 coverts black. Secondaries tipped and 

 bordered with rufous. 



Female. — She is more uniform 

 in color and has a darker tint on the 

 upper parts. Ear coverts brown. 

 The under parts more heavily marked 

 with brownish black lunules. 



Young birds similar to the adults in 

 each sex, except that the males lack 

 the deeper red of the head and neck, 

 showing a uniform ruddy brown 

 above. 



Distribution. — Eastern Asia. A 

 winter visitant in the Yangtse Valley, 

 leaving usually in February to nest in 

 Manchuria. 



Notes. — During a heavy snow in 

 February we saw one of these little 

 Shrikes attack a Tree Sparrow (Passer 

 montanus), which was feeding with a 

 number of others on the snow. After 

 a struggle of some minutes the Shrike 

 succeeded in killing the Sparrow, 

 apparently by gripping its neck. It 

 then carried it about fifty feet to a 

 shrub, by very short flights, sometimes 

 grasping it with its bill, and sometimes 

 in its claws. After considerable work, 

 it hung the Sparrow in the crotch of 

 a limb, and ate off its head and most 

 of the neck before leaving it. Although 

 the Sparrow was left hanging there for 

 several days, until the snow had melt- 

 ed, the Shrike did not return to it 

 again, so far as we could tell. 



