WOODCHAT SHRIKE. 7A 
the British Museum, which has been already referred to 
as having been killed in Kent, and a specimen of a young 
female in the Museum of the Zoological Society, which 
bird belonged to the collection of Mr. Vigors; both these, 
apparently in the plumage of the second or third year, 
are very much alike, and may be thus described: Head, 
and nape of the neck, red; back and wings hair brown, 
without any transverse lines; scapulars and edges of the 
tertials yellowish white; rump inclining to grey;  tail- 
feathers clove brown; all the under surface of the body 
dull white, tmged with red, but without bars; beak, legs, 
and toes, dark brown. Of this last pair of birds, the 
female is the smaller. 
In the illustration at the head of this article, the lower 
figure represents an adult male bird, the upper figure is 
that of a young bird of the year. 
The vignette below is intended by the artist to refer 
to “ A Woodchat” of another description. 
