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ANNALS OF BIRD LIFE. 



SPECIES. 



POINTS OF DISTINCTION. 



Waxwing 



Pallas's Gray Shrike 



Great Gray Shrike . 



Rose-coloured Pastor 



Pine Grosbeak 



General colour vinaceous brown ; 

 long handsome crest ; line from 

 nape to bill, and entire throat 

 black; under tail coverts chest- 

 nut ; tail tipped with yellow 

 secondaries and sometimes a few 

 of the tail feathers tipped with 

 scarlet wax-like appendages. 

 Length 8 inches. 



Above bluish gray, except rump, 

 which is white ; below white ; 

 tail graduated, four centre 

 feathers black, rest tipped 

 with white, increasing in ex- 

 only one 

 Length 9 



tent to outermost 



white bar on wing, 

 inches. 



Similar in colour to above, but 

 rump suffused with gray; two 

 white bars on wing. Length 

 9^ inches. 



Back, scapulars, rump, breast, and 

 belly rose pink ; head (crested), 

 wings, tail, and thighs black. 

 Length 8^ inches. 



General colour gray; the feathers 

 of the head, neck, back, throat, 

 and breast margined with rose 

 crimson; wings and tail dark 

 brown ; wing coverts, innermost 

 secondaries, and upper tail 

 coverts margined with white. 

 Females have rose colour re 

 placed by yellow; in immature 

 males reddish orange. Length 

 9 inches. 



