206 lanitd.t;. 



days before on St. Mary's, one of the isles of Scilly. The 

 occurrence of this bird he noticed in the ' Zoologist ' for the 

 same year (p. 3300) nnder the name of Lanius excuhitor ; 

 though, as he has kindly informed the Editor, he soon after 

 remarked the diflerences between this example and an 

 adult male of the Great Grey Shrike, in his already rich 

 collection. In the same periodical for 1867 (p. 556) Mr. 

 J. H. Jenkinson gave a description of this and other speci- 

 mens of grey Shrikes, announcing that it was pretty certain 

 it could not be L. excubitor, but not referring it to any 

 known species. Subsequently the same gentleman {torn. c'lt. 

 p. 606) suggested that it might belong to the American L. 

 ludoviclamts of Linnaeus, and soon afterwards its owner, 

 Mr. Kodd, sent the specimen to Mr. Gould, by whom it was 

 identified as the European L. minor, and figured in his 

 ' Birds of Great Britain.' Since that time Mr. Murray A. 

 Mathew has received, from Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, a 

 specimen obtained in a garden there in the spring of 1869 

 (Zool. s.s. p. 2060), the genuineness of which has been 

 corroborated {torn. cit. p. 2139) by Mr. Stevenson ; and 

 thus, two individuals of this species having unquestionably 

 occurred in England, its introduction in the present work 

 may be fully expected. 



On the continent of Europe the Lesser Grey Shrike is a 

 summer immigrant, arriving early in spring and departing 

 late in autumn. It is of rare occurrence in Holland, and 

 has been obtained only once in Denmark. In the south of 

 Sweden it has been observed two or three times, and a single 

 example has been met with in Finland ; but south of the 

 Baltic it is not uncommonly found, breeding throughout 

 northern Germany from Pomerania to Luxemburg. It also 

 visits Russia and probably extends its range into Siberia, 

 for Menetries obtained it in Caucasia. Be Fihppi observed it 

 in Persia and Canon Tristram in Palestine, where, however, it 

 seems to be rare, though Dr. Kriiper found it breeding in 

 Asia Minor. Turning westward, it occurs in all the countries 

 of central and southern Europe, as far as Spain, but appears 

 not to be common in that kingdom, nor to have been hitherto 



