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ote. Ae See. 
“» LANIUS NAVIUS. 
L. niger; dorso, ¥entreque cinerascentibus, illo antice 
alfi-maculatos remigibus externe, rectricibusque 
apice ~albis.o * 
Spotted Shrike. Lath. Syn. i. 190, 45. 
Lanius es. Gmel: Syst. 1. 308. 
Lath. Ind: @rn-81, 51. 
Mus. Bones 
Habitat a *: 
SPOTTED SHRIKE. 
Black ; back and belly sje colores the former ante- 
_ riorly spotted with white; quills of the wings externally, 
and the tips of those of the tail, white. 
Our figure of thi’, pretty bird is taken from the original 
specimen described by Dr. Fathom, and which is preserved 
in the British Museum. 
It has the appearance of arin a young bird; but Dr. 
Latham, who has seen another specimen, seems to have 
been fully justified in considering it as distinct from Lanizs 
doliatus, until he should be convinced to the contrary by 
the examination of intermediate gradations in plumage. 
The feathers composing the wing-coverts are regularly 
tipped with white. The under parts of the body are ash- 
coloured, of which colour the back partakes in a conside- 
rable degree. 
