LESSER GREY STIRTKR. 



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Lanius minor, J. F. Gmelin*. 



THE LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 



The Lesser Grey Shrike, being a bird of migratory 

 babits, considerable power of flight and wide distribution on 

 the continent of Europe, is just one of those species, whose 

 occasional appearance in our islands might have been safely 

 foretold. Its general resemblance also to the Shrike last 

 described (though their distinctive characters, when once 

 pointed out, are plain enough) is such that each may easily 

 be mistaken for the other — and, as will be immediately seen, 

 this has been done in one instance. Early in November, 

 1851, Mr. Edward Hearle Rodd, who for many years has 

 unceasingly recorded his observations on birds in Cornwall, 

 received a female grey Shrike, which had lieen killed a few 



* Syst. Nat. i p. 308 (1788). 



