106 LANIID^. 
lined with fine grass^ the whole covered outside with lichens 
and bits of some sort of Scleranthus — the same plant so 
much used by the Woodchat and many other birds. The 
eggs are from four to five in number. At one time I was 
under the erroneous impression that these birds were migra- 
tory, from seeing them near Gibraltar in autumn ; but, never 
having seen or heard of them on the African side, I must 
have been mistaken : besides, they were more numerous 
about the Goto del Rey in Avinter than in May. However, 
this tends to show that they shift their ground in Spain, 
though not migrating out of it. 
128. Lanius ALGERiENsis, Less. The AlgerianGrey Shrike. 
Moorish. Bou-seroond [Favier). 
Favier's notes, which under the synonym " meridionalis" 
refer to this species, do not add any thing to the account I 
have written. 
This Shrike, which would be more fitly named the North- 
west-African Grey Shrike, as it is not peculiar to Algeria, 
is not common in the immediate vicinity of Tangier ; but a 
little further south, near Larache, and towards the Fondak 
on the road to Tetuan they are very abundant. Their habits, 
nests, and eggs are identical with those of L. meridionalis, 
their Spanish representative. 
They are only met with in scrubby jungle. On the 18th 
of April I found one nest in a thick lentiscus bush, with five 
eggs, which were hard sat-on, and another on the 20th, with 
only three fresh eggs. 
The species is distinguishable from the Spanish Grey 
Shrike by the grey colour of the underparts, by the stout 
bill and legs, and by the much larger alar speculum. 
Length 9"6 inches; tarsus 1*1. 
129. Lanius AURicuLATus, P. L. S. Miill. The Woodchat 
Strike. >r k^-i^'^-wSu 
Moorish. Raicha el kra {Faviei'). Spanish. Alcaudon. 
As common in Morocco as in Andalucia, the Woodchat 
arrives in March and April, leaving in August and September. 
The first arrival noticed at Gibraltar in 1868 was on the 3rd 
