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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



(Breat 



Sbrifce. 



THE Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor, Linnaeus) is an 

 autumn and winter migrant to the British Islands, and a 

 summer visitor to Northern and Central Europe, spending 

 the winter in Southern Europe. The adult male has the 

 crown and upper parts pearl-grey, getting more ashy towards 

 the tail-coverts, the latter being tipped with white; forehead 

 and eye-stripe, white; wings, black; secondaries, white at 

 bases, and tipped with white; quills, barred with white near 

 their bases, and forming two white spots; lores, and below 

 eye, and auriculars, black; under parts, white; two centre 

 tail-feathers, black, next two, whitish; outermost ones, all 



