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Foreign Names: Hungary: Bajszos czinege, Sgakallas ceinege. 

 Russia: Usataja Siniza. 



Breeding Range: Austro - Hungary, the Danube Valley, and S. 

 Russia. [Also Asia Minor, Persia, etc., E. to Manchuria.] 



This race is a common summer visitor to the reed beds in the 

 lakes and rivers of Austro-Hungary, and is also plentiful in the Dobrudscha 

 and Bessarabia. Reiser also records it from a marsh on the coast of 

 E. Rumelia, and on the W. side of the Peninsula Lilford met with it 

 on the Albanian side of the Scutari Lake, but it has not been observed 

 there since. It is also found in S. Russia, and is resident in the low 

 lying marshes near the estuaries of the Terek and Kur in Caucasia. [In 

 Asia its range extends from Asia Minor eastward to Manchuria.] 

 Nest, Eggs In its breeding habits it resembles the western race , and the eggs 



«t<^- are also similar in type, but those examined are slightly larger on an 

 average. Thirteen eggs from the Velencze See average 17.47 x 14.06 mm. 

 (Coll. F. C. Selous, May 7 and 30). 



LANIIDAE. 



103. Lesser Grey Shrike, Lanius minor Gm. 



Plate 8, fig. 10—17 (Hungary). 

 Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XXI, fig. 4, a — d. Baedeker, 

 Tab. 52, fig. 4. Taczanowski, Tab. XXXYIII, fig. 2. Seebohm, Br. 

 Birds, pi. 11; id. Col. Fig. pi. 54. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 17—20. Krause, 

 pi. — fig. 1—36. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Tuhyk mensi. France: Pie-grieche 

 d'ltalie. Germany: Orauer Wilrger. Greece: Kephalas. Hungary: Kis 

 orgebics. Italy: Averla cenerina. Poland: Dzierzba czarnoczelna. 

 Russia: Sorokoputh. 



Lanius minor Gm. Newton, ed Yarrell, I, p. 205. Dresser, Birds of 

 Europe, III, p. 393; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 236. Saimders, Man. 

 p. 149. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 416. 



Breeding Range: S. and Mid-Europe, from the Baltic to the 



Mediterranean. [Also Siberia to lat. 57°; Asia Minor, and W. Turkestan.] 



g^^_ This Shrike is a summer visitor to Europe, migrating southward 



tinentai in August aud September. Although very common in the Rhone delta, 



Europe. ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ stragglcr to S. W. France, and is absent from the N,, 



as well as in the Iberian Peninsula. It has not been recorded from 



Corsica, and Salvadori's statement that it is common in N. Sardinia is 



probably a mistake. It is somewhat irregularly distributed in Italy and 



Sicily, but is not uncommon in some districts, such as the Po valley; and 



