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white; irides, brown; bill, legs, and feet, black. Length, 

 about nine inches. The adult female is similar to the male, 

 but the colouration is duller. 



pallae'0 <5rep Sbrifce, 



PALLAS'S Grey Shrike (Lanius major, Pallas) is said to be a 

 fairly frequent autumn migrant to the British Isles, and to 

 inhabit Siberia and Manchuria, south of about lat. 65. 

 This shrike closely resembles Lanius excubitor, but has 

 only one white wing bar, whilst the latter has two. The 

 adult sexes are similar in colour. 



Cbiffcbaff. 



THE Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus rufus, Bechstein), which is a 

 spring migrant to the British Islands, is also a summer 

 visitant to Northern temperate Europe, spending the winter 

 on the shores of the Mediterranean. The adult in summer 

 has the general colour of the upper parts olive-green; 

 rump, yellowish-green; tail, brown, edged with yellowish- 

 green; wings, brown, with yellowish-green edgings; eye- 



