64 AMPELID^E. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. One 

 record. Kent, June 1909. 



General Distribution. This Woodchat breeds in Corsica 

 and Sardinia. Occurs on passage in Tunisia, and winters 

 in west Africa from the Gold Coast to Nigeria. 



Lanius nubicus. MASKED SHRIKE. 



LanillS nubiCUS Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berlin, 

 1823, p. 47 : Nubia. 



Lanius nubicus (LicJit.) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. 1883, 



p. 282 ; Nicoll, Bull. B. O. C. xvi. 1905, p. 22. 

 Nubicus of Nubia. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Oc- 

 curred in Kent in July 1905. 



General Distribution. This Shrike breeds in south-western 

 Persia, Asia Minor, Cyprus, and Syria. It winters in north- 

 east Africa and southern Arabia. 



Family 



Genus AMPELIS Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, p 297. 

 Type : A. garrulus Linn. 



Ampelis = ajurreXi's, the bird which frequents the vine, a/*7re\os (Aristo- 

 phanes, Aves, 304). 



Ampelis garrulus. WAXWING. 



Lanius garrulus Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 95 : 

 Sweden. 



Ampelis garrulus (Linn.) B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 39 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 212; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 155. 



Garrulus, applied by Linnaeus to the Waxwing because of its fancied likeness 

 to a Jay = Garrulus. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Irregular Winter 

 Visitor, in some years occurring in considerable numbers ; 



