CRESTED, AND NATKA SHRIKE. ^^9 



long; middle feathers black; the reft marked at their ends with 

 white, which increafes to the exterior ; in which the black almoft 

 vanifhes. Rather inferior in fize to the laft. 



Inhabits North America. Seems to be La Pie Griefche de la Louifi- Place. 



ane, Brijfon, ii. 162; Latham, i. 162. 



Lanius Canadenfis, Lin. Syjl. i^^.—De Buffon,i. i\6.—Pl. Enl. J^-^g. fig. 2.— 129. Crested. 



Latham, i. i8z. 

 La Pie Griefche de Canada, Briffox, ii. 171. — Lev. Mus. 



O With black bill and legs : head adorned with a reddifii creft : 

 cheeks dufky, fpotted with white : hind part of neck and back 

 brown, inclining to red : throat and breaft of a yellowifh red: belly 

 and vent of a fine afh-color : coverts of the wings black, edged 

 with white ; primaries with white on their exterior fides : tail black,, 

 bordered on each fide,, and tipt with white. Length fix inches and> 

 a half: Extent about eleven. 



Inhabits Canada. " PLace. 



« 

 C With the bill (lightly in curvated at the end, black, except the i;o. Natkai. 



upper half of the lower mandible : crown, lower part of the 

 upper fide of the neck, and the back, black : over each eye is a white 

 line, extending to the very nape ; beneath that one of black : from. - 

 chin to vent is wholly white : a narrow white circle quite encom.- 

 pafTes the neck: leffer coverts of the wings black; greater white, 

 more or lefs dafhed down, the fhafts with black: primaries-dufky,, 

 fringed with yellowifli brown ; fecondaries black, edged and tipped 

 with white : tail black, a little rounded ; the four outmoft feathers 

 tipped with white : rump cinereous, the edges of the feathers grey : 

 legs black. Length feven inches one-fourth. 



Brought from Natka found in North Amerua. Communicated to Bi>aci.-. 



sae by Mr. Latham, 



Br. 



