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INSESSORES. LANIUS. 



Shrike. 



General 

 descrip- 

 tion. 



Plate 43. Fie-. 1. Natural size. 



Bill black, strong, and much hooked at the tip ; the base 

 covered with projecting bristles, that conceal the orifice 

 of the nostrils. Irides blackish-brown. From the base 

 of the upper mandible, a black streak runs past the eye, 

 reaching half-down the neck. Upper parts pearl-grey, 

 passing into pale ash-grey, upon the scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts. Wing-coverts black. Base of 

 the primary quills white ; the rest black with white tips, 

 under parts greyish- white. Tail wedge-shaped, of twelve 

 feathers ; the two middle ones black, the two next tipped 

 with white ; on the rest the black diminishes to the ©ut- 

 termost feather, which is generally white. Feet and claws 

 black. 



The female differs only from the male bird in having the 

 under parts of a deeper shade of greyish- white, marked 

 with numerous transverse dusky lines. 



RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 



Lanius CoLLunio, Linn. 



PLATE XLIII. Fig. 2., and PLATE XLIII. Fig. 2, 3. 



Lanius CoUurio, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 136. 12 — Gmel. Syst. p. 200 — Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. v. 1. p. 69. l\.—Briss. v. 2. p. 151. sp. 4. 

 Lanius minor rufus, Rail Syn. p. 18. A. 4 — Will. p. 54. 

 Merulae congener alia, Rati Syn, p. 67- 13. 

 Lanius spini Torquens, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 2. p. 1335. 

 La Pie grieche Ecorcheur, Buff. Ois. v. 1. p. 304. t. 21 — Id. PL Enl. 31. 



fig. 2. male, and fig. 1. female, under the title of Pie Grieche rousse fe- 



meWe.— Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 147 — Le Vail. Ois. d'Afriq. v. 2. 



pi. 64. f. 1. and. 2. 

 Rothriiekiger Vurger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 00. 

 Red-backed Shrike, Br. Zool. 1. No. 72 — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 131.— Lra-m's 



Br. Birds, 1. t. 'AQ.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 167. 2b.— Id. Supp. p. 52. Mont. 



Ornith. Diet.— /rf. Supp Pidt. Cat. Dorset, p. 4 — Bewick'n Br. Birds, 



1. p. 60 Shaw's Zool. v. 7- p- 315. 



Periodical The Red-backed Shrike is a regular periodical visitant in 

 visitant. Britain, arriving in the spring, and commencing its equato- 



