HOODED SHRIKE. 



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INSECTIVOR^. 



Famihj LANIB^. 



Genus Lanius. 



HOODED SHRIKE. 



Lanius cucullatus. 



Lanius cucullatus, 

 " Tchagra, 



Telephonus erythropterus, 

 Pie-Grieche a Capuchin, 

 Tschagra- Wiirger, 



Temminck, 1840. 



Le Vaillant; Ois. d'Afr., 2, pi. 70. 



SCHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



Bree, first edition. 



Swainson. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Above testaceous brown, beneath ash grey; wing 

 coverts and quills (externally) rufous; crown and stripe through the eye 

 black; sides of the head with a broad rufous stripe. First primary short; 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth equal, and longest in wing. 



Total length eight inches and a half; from the gape one inch ; wings 

 three inches and a half; tail from base four inches; tarsus one inch and 

 one-tenth. 



This bird has been introduced into the European fauna in con- 

 sequence of its occurrence in Spain, especially. More recently it has 

 been killed in the west of France, according to Degiand. Temminck, 

 in the latest additions to his Manual, published in 1840, remarks 

 that he has received it from Andalusia, as well as the south of Spain. 

 But it is rather singular that in a list of the Birds of Andalusia, 

 published by Dr. (Don Antonio) Machado, in 1854, no mention is 

 made of this bird. The omission, however, loses much of its signifi- 

 cance by not being noticed. M. Temminck remarks further that his 



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