52 GREAT SHRIKE. 
One variety is of a dull yellowish green all over, 
slightly marked with specks and a few blots of a darker 
shade of the same. 
A second is of a pale yellowish white ground colour, 
spotted all over with spots, dots, and oblong marks of 
a yellowish green colour, and the base a good deal 
marked with the same. 
A third is of a pale bluish ground colour, with a 
few minute dots of yellowish green, and some larger 
patches of the same, principally at and towards the 
larger end. 
A fourth is of a neutral-tint ground colour, much 
marked all over with dull yellowish orange. 
Alfred Newton, Esq., of Elvedon Hall, Thetford, 
writes me word that the eggs sometimes resemble those 
of the Magpie, and that he has seen one of a bluish 
white ground colour, with a few dark and well-defined 
spots. ‘lhe same gentleman has very obligingly for- 
warded to me a drawing of the nest of this species, 
from which the plate is taken. 
