THE ZooLocist— DECEMBER, 1875. 4721 
extraordinary, the nest had every appearance of the young birds having 
been hatched and fledged in it. The men supposed it to be a linnet’s 
nest.”—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
New British Bird.—Lanius meridionalis (Bree’s ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. ii. 
Qnd ed., and vol. i., 1st ed.). A specimen of this bird, which is new to our 
British fauna, was shot last week a few miles from this town. It is a male, 
and had a shrew in its stomach. It must not be confounded with the bird 
so called by Yarrell, Lanius excubitor, which is more or less frequently a 
well-known visitor to our shores. It differs in— 
Ist. The four upper tail-feathers are black, sometimes slightly tipped 
with white, as one feather is in the present case. 
2nd. It has a white superciliary ridge. 
8rd. The upper parts are of a darker ash-colour. 
4th. The under parts are slightly but obviously tinted with vinous. 
5th. It is altogether a larger bird than L. excubitor. In the present 
case it is ten inches and a quarter long. 
I proposed in my ‘ Birds of Europe’ to restrict the English name of 
Excubitor to that of the great gray shrike, retaining that of great gray 
shrike for the present bird. It is, as far as I am aware, the only specimen 
ever obtained in these islands.—C. R. Bree; Colchester, November 8, 1875. 
Erratum.—Kindly delete the 6 in the measurement of the tarsus of the 
new European reed warbler noticed in the last number of the ‘ Zoologist’ 
(S. S. 4689). It ought to be *85.—C. Ri. B. 
Supposed Occurrence of the Jugger Falcon (Falco Juggur, Gray) off 
the Coast of Yorkshire.—At p. 597 readers of the ‘ Zoologist’ will find 
a note on the occurrence of a common buzzard off Flamborough Head. It 
settled on the rigging of a coal-sbip in the dusk of the evening, and was 
noosed by one of the sailors. As this statement has never been corrected, 
and as it is copied into at least one work, I take the liberty of saying that 
the hawk in question was sent up to the Zoological Gardens, and was 
ascertained by the best London naturalists to be a Jugger falcon. It was 
then immediately asserted that it could not have been caught off Flam- 
borough, and I have heard that these doubts were much confirmed on 
enquiry, though the original notice is so circumstantial that one wonders 
how any blunder could have arisen. Its legs are described to have been 
greenish flesh-colour.” I see Gould makes them green in the young 
(‘ Birds of Asia,’ pt. 1). My father says the Juggur is much used in India 
for falconry. Can it have been brought over to this country and escaped ?— 
J. H. Gurney, jun. 
The Redbacked Shrike a Butcher.—Although, as Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 
says in his note on this bird (Zool. S. S. 4691), perhaps the habit of the 
redbacked shrike of “butchering” its prey (i.e. bird-prey) is ‘too well 
‘established now to require any further instauces,”—yet I think it is always 
