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saturated, but of which not the slightest vestige can 

 be seen when the feathers are laid smooth. "We 

 have little doubt but that this is a distinction of 

 the male sex, and that in the season of courtship 

 these elongated feathers are puffed out on both 

 sides, so as to exhibit this ornamental spot to the 

 female. The bill, unlike any other shrike, is of 

 a bright and pure yellow ; the legs are brown. 



Total length, 11 inches ; bill, from the gape, 1 ; 

 wings, 4| ; tarsus, 1 ; tail, from the base, 6. 



RUFOUS-WINGED SHRIKE. 



TelopJionus erythropterus, SWAINS. 



Above testaceous brown, beneath whitish ; wing-covers and 

 quills (externally) rufous ; crown, and stripe through the 

 eye, black ; sides of the head with a broad whitish stripe. 



Le Tchagra, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afrique, ii. pi. 70 Pie-grieche 

 rousse a tete noir du Senegal, PI. Enl. 479, fg. 1 Lanius 

 erythropterus, Shaw, Gent. Zool. viii. 2, 301. 



THIS is another of the South African Shrikes whose 

 geographic range extends to Senegal, and it seems to 

 be equally common in both regions. Le Vaillant 

 observes, that but for its cry it is very difficult to 

 find, since it frequents only the thickest brushwood 

 and the most dense foliage ; such haunts, in fact, 

 are the most productive of its favourite food, which 

 is the larva and pupa of different insects. Its flight 

 is slow, feeble, and near the ground; an imperfec- 



