WOODCHAT. 



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female formerly in the Museum of the Zoological Society, 

 which bird belonged to the collection of Mr. Vigors ; both 

 these are apparently in the plumage of the second or third 

 year, and may be thus described : Head, and nape of the 

 neck, red ; back and wings hair-brown, without any trans- 

 verse lines ; scapulars and edges of the tertials yellowish- 

 white ; rump inclining to grey ; tail-feathers clove-brown ; 

 all the under surface of the body dull white, tinged with 

 red, but without bars ; beak, legs, and toes, dark brown. 



Examples of the Woodchat from Egypt in winter-plumage 

 present very great variety, and have been the cause of many 



errors. 



Several of the smaller Shrikes, of which this species is 

 one, are by some authorities removed from the genus Lanius, 

 and for their accommodation a genus Enneoctonus has been 

 erected a proceeding which seems scarcely necessary. 



