98 RARE VISITANTS. 
Order Il. INSESSORES. 
Fam. LANIID &. 
LESSER GREY SHRIKE. Lanius minor, Gmelin. 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe; Africa. 
One, St. Mary’s, Scilly, Nov. 1851: Rodd, Zoologist, 1851, 
p. 8301, and 1867, p. 703. 
One, Yarmouth, Norfolk, sprig 1869: Mathew, Zoologist, 
1870, p. 2060; Stevenson, tom. cit. p. 2139. 
Obs. The occurrence in Great Britain of a North- 
American species of Grey Shrike, Lantus excubitoroides 
of Swainson, has several times been reported or hinted 
at (cf. Longmuir, The Naturalist, vol. ii. p. 239, and 
vol. ili. p. 140; Smith, Zoologist, 1849, pp. 2495- 
2567; Garth, op. cit. 1850, p. 2649; Tomes, op. cit. 
1850, pp. 2650 & 2734, fig.; and Gray, Birds of the 
West of Scotland, p. 65). It would appear, how- 
ever, from what has been published by Messrs. Dresser 
and Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 590) and Prof. Newton 
(Yarrell’s Hist. Brit. Birds, 4th ed. vol. 1. p. 203) on 
the changes of plumage which the Grey Shrikes un- 
dergo, that the birds which were thought to be of 
North-American origin were only the young of Lanius 
excubitor. 
