72 A HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN BIRDS. 
MASKED OR NUBIAN SHRIKE. 
e- 
Lanius nubicus Zzcht. 
Adult Male (Summer): Forehead and superciliary stripe 
creamy-white ; upper parts generally glossy black; scapulars, 
bases of primaries, and outermost rectrices white ; quills dark 
brown; coverts and innermost secondaries margined with 
white ; under parts white, shaded on sides of neck, breast and 
flanks with pale ferruginous ; bill and feet dark brown ; irides 
brown. Length 6’9 to 7°25 inches; culmen 0°55 ; wimg 3:5 to 
2775 5 tall. 2°4tO .2°O.; tarsus o’a4- 
Adult Female: Similar, but much browner above; no- 
where glossy black. 
Young in first plumage: Feathers of upper parts 
broadly edged with brown, with pale centres; scapular 
feathers whiter; innermost secondaries broadly margined 
with pale brown; beneath whitish, closely vermiculated on 
throat, chest and flanks with dusky-brown. 
Distribution : Summer migrant to and breeding in South- 
eastern Europe and wintering in North-eastern Africa. 
Habitat: Groves, vineyards, or fir-woods. 
Family AMPELIDZ. 
Genus AMPELIS. 
WAXWING 'OR BOHEMIAN CHATTERER.W“ 
Ampelis garrulus Zznz. 
Adult: General colour above greyish-brown ; rump grey ; 
quills nearly black ; primaries tipped on outer webs with yel- 
low, and on inner ones with white ; secondaries broadly tipped 
with white, wth the mid-rib extended tnto a scarlet wax-like 
point; greater wing-coverts tipped with white; tail blackish, 
broadly margined with yellow ; forehead washed with chestnut ; 
lores, superciliary stripe and throat black ; wader tatl-coverts 
rich reddish brown ; rest of under parts greyish brown, paler 
on abdomen ; bill black, pale horn at base beneath ; legs and. 
