234 CORVINE, OR LONG-TAILED SHRIKE. 



ever, record it as an inhabitant of Senegal, where it 

 seems to he not uncommon*. 



The ground of the upper plumage is very light 

 fawn or drah, inclining to brownish grey ; each feather 

 of the crown, neck, and back having a dark stripe 

 down the middle ; on the sides of the head, above 

 the eyes and ears, are whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 while the space between the eye and bill, as also the 

 ears, are blackish brown. The scapulars have two 

 marginal concentric black lines round each feather, 

 but the wing-covers have only one, placed just within 

 the extreme margin, which is light-grey ; the lesser 

 quills and tertials are the same as the greater wing* 

 covers ; but the greater quills are clear ferruginous 

 or diluted rufous, with more or less of their terminal 

 half blackish. The long narrow tail-feathers are 

 like the scapulars, but with the black markings 

 more broken into spots. The under plumage is 

 dirty white mottled with indistinct transverse spots 

 disposed sometimes in pairs, or rather imperfectly 

 divided. 



We shall now notice the most remarkable cha- 

 racter of this curious bird, and which has been 

 entirely overlooked by all who have hitherto de- 

 scribed it. The feathers on the flanks, upon being 

 raised, will be found remarkably long ; concealing, 

 as it were, from the eye of the observer, a large 

 patch of very deep and pure chestnut with which 

 the lower half of each feather more or less is 



* We have received numerous specimens from Southern 

 Africa, also from the Gambia. ED. 



