22 MASKED SHRIKE. 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Family LANID^. 



Genus Lanius. (Linnceus.) 



MASKED SHEIKE. 



Lanius personatus. 



La?iius personatus, Temminck. Schlegel, 1844. 



" nubicus, Lichstenstein ; Cat: Mus: Berlin, 



1823. 

 " leucometopon, Count Muhle, 1844. 



Leucometopon Nubicum, Bonaparte. Capt. Loche; Cat: 



des Mam., et des Ois: Observe 

 en Algerie, 1858. Supplementary 

 list, p. 154. 

 Pte-Orieche masquee, Of the French. 



Specific Characters. — Wings with a rather lengthened bastard quill feather, 

 marked with a white spot. First quill feather longer than the fifth ; tail long 

 and sloped, with the most lateral quill feather white, shaft black; the fol- 

 lowing one also white; inner feather with the shaft and edges black. 



Length nineteen centimetres (seven inches and a half.) — Degland. 

 Length six inches and one-sixth, (Paris.) — Muhle. 



This bird appears to have been first described by Licbstenstein, in 

 his Catalogue of Duplicate Birds in the Museum of Berlin, and 

 published in 1823, under the name of Lanius nubicus. It was subse- 

 quently discovered in Greece, and described as a new species by 

 Count Von der Miihle, in 1844, under the name of Lanius leucome- 

 topon. 



It was first figured by Temminck as L. personatus, which name was 

 adopted by Schlegel, in his "Revue," in 1844, and which I retain in 



