444 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [PART I. 
this involving more than half of the outer feather, or nearly the 
whole of its exposed portion. . 
Young birds differ in having the upper plumage much duller and 
tinged with ochraceous ; the feathers, especially of head and rump, 
waved (most finely on the head) with dusky, the jugulum and breast 
similarly marked. The tips of the greater wing coverts are pale 
ochraceous, and, like the lesser, are waved with dusky; the black 
cheek stripe is obsolete in front of the eye, excepting a spot at its 
anterior canthus; the bill and legs are paler. 
The difference between this species and its American allies will 
be pointed out farther on. It appears to be very closely related to 
the L. meridionalis of Europe (TEMMrincK, Man. I, 1820, 143; 
Drauanp, Ois. Eur. I, 1849, 384; Brees, Birds Europe, I, 1859, 
159, plate, ete.) ; but judging from Degland’s description, the latter 
differs principally in the vinaceous or rosy tinge of the under parts, 
and in the rectrices being entirely black at the base. The eye stripe, 
with its paler upper border anteriorly, and the white markings of 
the wing appear to be much the same. The length of meridionalis 
(ten inches) is considerably greater. 
Specimens éxamined, ten. 
Smith-|Collec-|} Sex 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. een Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. 4 
3,054 Bhs .. | Liberty County, Ga. 1846. Se Cia FS EI Hee tay Sa 5 = 
542 ss -. | Southern Atlantic 
States. ee ASTRA Tye sone ison 
2,420 -. |Juy.| Savannah, Ga, 1845, PORT ella ree PA aoe 
Collurio elegams. 
Lanius elegans, Sw. F. B. A. Il, 1831, 122.—Norraut, Man. I, 1840, 287. 
—Cassin, Pr. A. N. Se. 1857, 213.—Barrp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 
327.—Collyrio elegans, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, xxxv. 
Hab. California? 
Third quill longest ; then 4th and 5th; 2d between 5th and 6th; Ist about 
half the longest. Bill lengthened and very powerful, as large and strong as 
that of ZL. borealis. 
Upper parts dark plumbeous-ash (very much as in Z. ludovicianus) ; darkest 
on head, a little paler perhaps on the lower back and rump (very slightly and 
almost inappreciably, however) ; the forehead as dark as, or even darker than 
the vertex ; the longer scapulars quite white at ends. Beneath bluish-white, 
quite pure on throat and sides of neck, middle of belly, and crissum; the 
sides of body and the front of breast decidedly bluish; the axillars, how- 
ever, with their outer webs quite white, their inner more ashy; the lesser - 
