1 68 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



ORDER II. INSESSORES. 

 Tribe DENTiROSTRES. Family LAXIAD.E. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE (Lanins excubitor}. This 

 species might have been included amongst the winter 

 visitants, as scarcely a season elapses in which it is 

 not observed, but since its appearance is not marked 

 by sufficient regularity, I have preferred to place it 

 amongst the Accidental Visitants. The Rev. H. H. 

 Crewe wrote me word that a male Great Grey 

 Shrike had been shot on the 4th of November, 

 1854, at Weston Turville in Buckinghamshire. This 

 bird was brought to him in the flesh. On the i/th 

 of the same month a female of this species was like- 

 wise brought to him, which had been shot near Wen- 

 dover, Bucks, about a week previously. 



Mr. Hasell, of Bexley Street, Windsor, informed 

 me that a fine Grey Shrike, which I have since seen, 

 was shot in Berkshire about fifteen years ago. The 

 name of the exact locality whence it was obtained, he 

 had forgotten. Another example of this Shrike was 

 killed by a person named Taylor on the banks of the 

 Thames, at Clewer, in the winter of 1859-60. 



