160 LANLULE. 



by black hairs : the lore, or space between the base of the 

 beak and the eye, black ; the same colour passing by a nar- 

 rower band under the eye, and then expanding, forms a 

 black oval patch which covers the orifice of the ears : the 

 irides very dark brown ; the head, neck, back, wing and 

 tail-coverts, pearl grey ; the scapulars tipped with white ; 

 wing-primaries and secondaries black, with a white bar 

 near the base of each feather, which, when the wing is 

 closed, form two white spots; the secondaries are also 

 tipped with white : the upper surface of the four central 

 feathers of the tail black, the next feather on each side 

 tipped with white, the next one-fourth white, the next 

 one-third white, the next or outer tail-feathers almost 

 wholly white ; the tail graduated. The chin, throat, sides 

 of the neck, the breast, belly, flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts, pure white ; under wing-coverts white ; under 

 surface of wing-primaries dusky grey, inclining to slate 

 grey ; under surface of tail-feathers less pure in colour than 

 the upper surface, but equally defined in the markings ; the 

 legs, toes, and claws, black. 



Females resemble the males, except that the colours of 

 the plumage are not so pure, and the dull white of the 

 breast is marked with numerous greyish semilunar lines. 



Young males resemble the females. 



The whole length of the Grey Shrike is ten inches. 

 Length of wing from the wrist-joint, or carpus, to the end 

 of the longest primary, four inches and three-quarters ; first 

 wing-feather only half as long as the second ; the second 

 shorter than the third, fourth, or fifth, which are nearly 

 equal, and the longest in the wing ; the sixth but very 

 little longer than the second. 



