170 LANIAD A. 
In the adult male, the beak is black, with the same sort 
of tooth and depression near the point of the upper man- 
dible observed in the Red-backed Shrike ; above the base 
of the upper mandible is a narrow streak of white; the 
forehead, round the eyes, the ear-coverts, and a small patch 
depending therefrom, black; irides hazel; crown of the 
head and nape of the neck, rich chestnut red; the back 
black ; the scapulars white; the rump grey; upper tail- 
coverts white: the wings and wing-coverts black; the 
primaries white at the base, formimg a spot when the 
wing is closed; the secondaries white at the end: the 
central tail-feathers black ; the outer featheron each side 
wholly white; the next on each side with the proximal 
half white; the distal half black, with a white tip; the 
next on each side with a white tip only. The chin, throat, 
breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, white ; legs, toes, and 
claws, black. 
The whole length of the male here described was seven 
inches and a half. The length from the carpal joint to 
the end of the wing-feathers, four inches: the first wing- 
feather less than half the length of the second; the third, 
fourth, and fifth, longer than the second; the third the 
longest of the whole. 
The female has the head and neck dull red; the scapu- 
lars dirty white; the black colour of the back mixed with 
brown ; the wing-coverts edged with red; the breast dirty 
white; the feathers of the flanks reddish tipped with 
brown. 
The young bird of the year is reddish brown above, 
with brown transverse lines; wings and tails brownish 
black ; underneath dirty white, with greyish transverse 
lines. 
The young male in the British collection of Birds in 
