i8o 



SHRIKE. 



3i- 



RUFOUS 



S. 



Description. 



Female. 



Place. 



Lanius rufus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 137. N° 17. 



La pie-griefche roufle de Madagafcar, Brif. om. ii. p. 178. N° 16. pi. i&> 



f. 4.— PI. enl. 298. f. 2. 

 Le Schet-be, Buf. oif. i. p. 313. 



ENGTH feven inches and three quarters. Bill lead-colour 1 

 bafe briftly : head, throat, and neck, greenifh black : upper 

 parts of the body rufous ; beneath cinereous white : thighs cine- 

 reous : quills brown within ; on the outer edge rufous and brown 

 mixed : tail rufous ; the margins brown on both fides near the 

 end : legs and claws horn-colour. 



The female has the colours lefs vivid : throat and fore part- of 

 the neck grey: the outer edge of the quills of a plain rufous co- 

 lour : in other things like the male. 



Thefe inhabit Madagafcar, where the male is called Schet-he„ 

 and the female Tcha-chert-dae *. 



1 2 



WHITE- 



HEADED 



S. 



Description. 



Le grande pie-griefche verdatre de Madagafcar, Brif. orn.'n. N° 24. pi. 19. 



f. 2. — PL enl. 374. 

 Tcha-chert-be, Buf. oi/.'u p. 314. 



T ENGTH eight inches : fize of a Blackbird. Bill lead-colour : 

 head, neck, throat, breaft, belly, fides, thighs, under tail, and 

 wing coverts, white : lower part of the neck behind, the back, 

 rump, fcapulars, upper wing, and tail coverts, greenifh black : 

 quills black, with green edges : tail black beneath ; above 

 greenifh black : legs and claws lead-colour. 



• See Brif.orn, ii. p, 178^ 



This 



