SPOTTED FLY-CATCHER. 



32. LITTLE OTfL (Noctua passeriw). 

 Little Night Owl> Sparrow Owl A very occasional visitant 



33. TENGMALM'S OWL(iVoctua Tenr/malmi). 

 Like the last. 

 We arrive now at our second Order, 



INSESSORES, 

 The first GROUP in which is 



DENTIROSTRES. 

 FAMILY I.LANIAD^E. 



34. GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Lamus excubitor). 

 Greater Butcher Bird, Ash-coloured Shrike, Cinereous Shrike, 



Grey Shrike This bird is an occasional visitor only, and has very 

 rarely been seen in the breeding season. No authentic instance 

 of its nesting with us is known. 



35. RED-BACKED SHRIKE (Lamus collurio). 

 Lesser Butcher Bird, Elusher, Murdering-pie, Jack Baker, 



&c. The male of this species is a beautiful bird, with his bright 

 chesnut back and lively air. They spend only a part of the yeat 

 with us, but that part involves the period of nesting. The 

 l iest is usually rather high up in a strong, thick bush, large-sized 

 for the bird, cup-shaped, and made of coarse withered herbage 

 externally, with rather finer materials within, and lined with 

 hair or some such substance. The eggs are four or five in 

 number, varying much in colour and marks. The ground-shade 

 varies, and so do the markings ; the latter, however, being usually 

 found thicker and darker in a zone or band encircling some part 

 of the egg. Description is quite inadequate to convey any idea 

 of these variations. The bird deserves its name, for it 

 " slaughters " small birds, as well as other animals, and hangs 

 up the carcases in regular shambles. It is wonderful how the 

 frogs, beetles, caterpillars, cock-chafers, birds, &c., which form 

 its food, are fixed so very firmly and tenaciously upon the strong 

 thorny point. Figs. 4, 5, plate II. 



36. WOODCHAT SHRIKE- ( La,i in* ritf**). 

 Only an occasional visitant. 



II.-MUSCICAPID^E. 



37. SPOTTED ELYCATCHER (Musdcapa grisola). 



Beam-bird, Bee-bird, Rafter -bird, Post-bird, Wall-bird, Cherry 



chopper, Cherry-sucker, Cobweb-bird. Many of these names aiv 



