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Eggs Brit. Mus. IV, pi. XII, fig. 14.) The eggs, 4—5, sometimes 6 in 

 number, vary greatly in character, sometimes being very pale and at 

 other times boldly blotched and spotted like those of L. e. meridionalis. 

 Average of 56 eggs from Palestine measured by the writer, 26.66x19,47 mm., 

 Max. 30 X 19 and 27 X 21.2; Min. 24.5 X 19.3 and 26.4 X 18. 

 f. Przewalski's Shrike, L. e. przeivalskii Bogd. which inhabits Turkestan, 

 the Desert of Gobi, etc., occurs in S. E. Russia in winter occasionally. 

 (The American Great Grey Shrike, L. e. borealis Vieill. (Plate 42, fig. 

 5 — 10) inhabits the northern parts of N. America, and its supposed 

 occurrence in the Old World is erroneous.)] 



105. Woodchat, Lanius senator L. 

 Geographical Races. 



a. European Woodchat, L. senator senator L. 



Plate 24, fig. 10 — 19 (Magdeburg, Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XXXI, fig. 8, a— f. Hewitson, 

 I Ed. I, pi. CVIII, fig. 2; II Ed. I, pi. XV, fig. 2; III Ed. I, pi. XX, 

 fig. 2. Baedeker, Tab. 52, fig. 5. TaczanoAvski, Tab. XXXIX, fig. 2. 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 11; id. Col. Fig. pi. 54. Frohawk, Br. Birds, 

 I, pi. Ill, fig. 109. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 18—25. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Tuhyk rudohlavy. Denmark: Bod- 

 hovedet Tornskade. France: Pie-grieche roiisse. Germany: Rotkopfiger 

 Wiirger. Greece: Kephalas. Helgoland: Road-hoaded Verwoahrfink. 

 Holland: Roodkoppige Klaauivier. Hungary: Vorosfegu gebics. Italy: 

 Averla capirossa. Poland: Dzierzha rdzawokarczysta. Portugal: Picanso. 

 Russia: Sorokoput. Spain: Alcaudon. Sweden: Rddhufrade to'rnskata. 

 Lanius auriculatus P. L. S. Miill. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 215. 

 Dresser, Birds of Europe, III, p. 407; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 246. L. 

 pomeramis Sparrm, Saunders, Man. p. 153. L. senator senator L. 

 Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 434, 



Breeding Range: Continental Europe, S, of the N, Sea, Denmark, 

 and the Baltic. [Also N. Africa.] 

 British The Woodchat is said to have bred on two occasions in the Isle 



Isles, of Wight, and there is some reason to believe that it has also nested 



in Hants on at least one occasion. 

 Con- It is a very common summer visitor to all the countries bordering 



on the Mediterranean, and in some districts the breast of the male forms 

 a conspicuous spot of white on the top of almost every bush. In the 

 Iberian peninsula it is abundant except in the northern provinces, and 

 is also numerous in Italy on the low ground, especially in the S., and 

 is one of the commonest birds in the olive groves of Greece. It breeds 



Europe. 



