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1 08. Lanius excubitor meridionalis Temm. THE SOUTH 

 EUROPEAN GREY SHRIKE. 



LANIUS MERIDIONALIS Temminck, Man. d'Orn.,ed. n., i, p. 143 (1820 



S. Italy, Dalmatia, S. France, etc. Restricted typical locality : Provence). 

 Lanius meridionalis, J. B. Nichols, Brit. B., v, p. 75. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One. Male near Pett (Sussex), Jan. 2, 

 1911 (ut supra}. [The specimen recorded from near Norwich, 

 Dec., 1890 (J. H. Gurney, Trans. Norf. & N. Nat. Soc., vm, pt. iii, 

 pp. 352-3, and Brit. B., I, p. 124), was wrongly identified (Brit. B., 

 v,p. HI).] 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Spain, Portugal, south France, once at 

 Gien on the Loire. Casual in Italy from the Riviera to Rome. 



LANIUS SENATOR* 



109. Lanius senator senator L. THE WOODCHAT SHRIKE. 



LANIUS SENATOR Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 94 (1758 "Habitat 

 in Tndiis." Errore. Rhine fixed as typical locality by Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Fauna, i, p. 434). 



Lanius auriculatus P. L. S. Miiller, Yarrell, i, p. 215 ; Lanius pomeranus 

 Sparrman, Saunders, p. 153. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Some forty at intervals, mostly in 

 south, and east as far north as Norfolk ; very rarely elsewhere. Not 

 recorded from : Lines., Rutland, Hunts., Beds., Bucks., Gloucester, 

 Salop, Staffs., Leicester, Warwick, and Middlesex, nor from Wales. 

 Said to have twice nested Isle of Wight. Scotland. One, Isle of 

 May (Forth), Oct. 19, 1911. Ireland. One, Blackwater Lightship 

 (Wexford), Aug. 16, 1903. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North-west Africa and Mediterranean 

 countries generally, north to north Germany, Holland, and Belgium, 

 east to south Russia, Caucasus, and Asia Minor. Migrant, south in 

 winter to Sahara, Senegambia, Niger, and Haussaland. Replaced 

 in Corsica and Sardinia, Persia and Palestine, by closely-allied 

 forms. 



no. Lanius senator badius Hartl. THE CORSICAN WOOD- 

 CHAT SHRIKE. 



LANIUS BADIUS Hartlaub, Journ. f. On., 1854, p. 100 (Gold Coast). 

 Lanius senator badius Hartl., C. B. Ticehurst, Bull. B.O.C., xxv, p. 76 ; 

 id., Brit. B.,III, p. 369. 



* This species is rather unfortunate in its names. Until 1871 it was 

 almost universally called L. rufus, or sometimes ruftceps or rutilus. Then 

 Mr. Dresser introduced auriculatus, and this alteration of a well-known, time- 

 honoured name was unblushingly accepted by Saunders in the same year, and 

 by Gadow, but in 1883 Saunders adopted pomeranus, which had to give way 

 to senator, since the adoption of the 10th edition of Linnneus, 1758. E,H. 



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