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LESSER GREY SHRIKE, 603 
LANIUS MINOR. 
LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 
(Prats 11.) 
Lanius auriculatus, Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 71 (1766). 
Lanius cinereus medius, Gerin. Orn. Meth. Dig. i. p. 73, pl. liv. (1767). 
Lanius minor, Gime/. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308 (1788); et auctorum plurimorum— 
Naumann, Temminck, Bonaparte, Degland, Gerbe, Newton, Dresser, Bogdanow, 
&e, 
Lanius italicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 71 (1790). 
Lanius vigil, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 403 (1826), 
Lanius longipennis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xy. 1846, p. 300. 
Enneoctonus italicus (Lath.), Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 438. 
Lanius roseus, Bailly, Orn. de la Sav. ii. p. 26 (1853). 
Enneoctonus minor (Gmel.), Gray, Hand-l, B. i. p. 393 (1869), 
The Lesser Grey Shrike can only be considered a very accidental 
straggler to the British Islands, only four examples of this bird having 
been recorded. The first specimen, a female, was killed during the first 
week in November 1851, at St. Mary’s, on the Scilly Islands. It was 
recorded in the ‘Zoologist’ for that year (p. 3300) as an example of the 
Great Grey Shrike by Mr. E. H. Rodd, who afterwards sent it to Mr. 
Gould, who corrected the error in its identification. The second specimen 
was forwarded to Mr. Murray A. Mathew from the immediate neighbour- 
hood of Great Yarmouth. It was obtained early in the spring of 1869, 
and recorded by that gentleman in the ‘Zoologist’ for the year 1870 
(p. 2060). The third example, a male, is recorded by Mr. Stevenson in 
the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1875 (p. 4633). It was caught alive in a greenhouse 
near Great Yarmouth, in the same locality as the last-named specimen, 
during the last week of May 1875. On the 2nd of June it was brought 
to Mr. Stevenson in the flesh, having died in the cage in which its captors 
had placedit. It is now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. Lastly, 
Mr. J. Gatcombe recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1876 (p. 5178) a fourth 
specimen, caught alive in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. It was obtained 
by a birdcatcher, and was brought to a Mr. Peacock, a local bird-preserver, 
who was under the impression that it was an example of the Great Grey 
Shrike. 
The Lesser Grey Shrike breeds in Eastern France, Germany, Switzer- 
land, Italy, South Russia (up to lat. 57°), Austria, Turkey, Asia Minor, 
Palestine, Turkestan, Persia, and South-western Siberia (as far north as 
Omsk, in lat. 57°, and as far east as Lake Zaisan, in long. 84°). On 
migration it has occasionally occurred in South Sweden, Holland, Den- 
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