160 LANIAD A. 
by black hairs: the lore, or space between the base of the 
beak and the eye, black; the same colour passing by a nar- 
rower band under the eye, and then expanding, forms a 
black oval patch which covers the orifice of the ears: the 
irides very dark brown; the head, neck, back, wing and 
tail-coverts, pearl grey ; the scapulars tipped with white ; 
wing-primaries and secondaries black, with a white bar 
near the base of each feather, which, when the wing is 
closed, form two white spots; the secondaries are also 
tipped with white: the upper surface of the four central 
feathers of the tail black, the next feather on each side 
tipped with white, the next one-fourth white, the next 
one-third white, the next or outer tail-feathers almost 
wholly white ; the tail graduated. The chin, throat, sides 
of the neck, the breast, belly, flanks, thighs, and under 
tail-coverts, pure white; under wing-coverts white ; under 
surface of wing-primaries dusky grey, inclining to slate 
grey ; under surface of tail-feathers less pure in colour than 
the upper surface, but equally defined in the markings; the 
legs, toes, and claws, black. 
Females resemble the males, except that the colours of 
the plumage are not so pure, and the dull white of the 
breast is marked with numerous greyish semilunar lines. 
Young males resemble the females. 
The whole length of the Grey Shrike is ten inches. 
Length of wing from the wrist-joint, or carpus, to the end 
of the longest primary, four inches and three-quarters ; first 
wing-feather only half as long as the second; the second 
shorter than the third, fourth, or fifth, which are nearly 
equal, and the longest in the wing; the sixth but very 
little longer than the second. 
