t'S* 



SHRIKE. 



FORK-TAILED 

 CRESTED 

 SHRIKE. 



Lanius forfieatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 134, N" 1. 



Le Grand Gobe-mouche noir hupe de Madagafcar, Brif. ii. p. 388. N° ; 



pi. 37. f. 4. 

 Le Drongo, Buf. or/", iv. p. 586. 

 Gobe-mouche hupe de Madagafcar, PI. enl. 189. 



■Description. 



Female. 



Place. 



CIZE of a Blackbird; length ten inches. Bill black; at the 

 angles of the mouth a few (lender brifiles : general colour of 

 the plumage greenifh black: on the forehead, jufr. over the bill, 

 is a creil ftanding upright, near an inch and three quarters in 

 length: tail black, long, and greatly forked ; edged with greenifh 

 black : legs and claws black. 



It is not always furnifhed with a creft; when that is the cafe,, 

 sftich fpecimen may probably be taken for a female. 



Inhabits Madagafcar, China, and the Cape of Good Hope ; from 

 the laft place is one.now in the collection of Sir Jof. Banks* 



FORK-TAILED 

 5. 



Lanius csrulefcens, Lin Syft. i. p. 134, N° 2. 



La Pie-griefche a queue fourchue de Bengale, Miif. we. ii. p. ,189. N° zz* 



LeFingah, Buf. oif. i. p. 308. 



Fork-tailed Indian Butcher-Bird, Edw. i. pi. 56. 



CDescmption. 



ENGTH kv.tn inches and a half: fize of the afh-coloured 

 Shrike. Bill blackifh brown, and bent ; the upper mandible 

 befet with black 'hairs turning forwards.: plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body fine black, with a glofs of blue, and in fome 

 lights green ; under parts white : breaft dark aih-colour, inclining 

 ,to black: the greater quills and tail ferruginous black: tail 



pretty 



