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Sp. 13. La. Ludovicianus. Shaw, v. vii.p. 294. — North America. 

 Sp. 14. La. Americanus. Skaiv, v. vii. p. 301. — North America. 

 Sp. 15. La. Carolinensis, or Loggerhead Shrike. Wils. Amer. 



Om. in, pi. 22. f. 5. 

 La. nigricans Jronte fascidque oculari nigris ; rectricibus qualuor 



intermediis nigris j reliquis plus minusve albis. 

 Dusky Shrike with the forehead and stripe through the eyes 



black ; the four intermediate tail-feathers black ; the rest more 



or less tipped with white. 



Inhabits North America. Length nine inches : 

 allied to the preceding bird : the colour more dusky, 

 and the frontlet and streak through the eye black ; 

 the last running down half way on each side of the 

 neck : irides dark hazel : the four middle tail-feathers 

 black, four exterior more or less white at the ends, 

 the outer nearly all white : beak and legs black. 



Said to destroy mice, to have a rough note, not 

 unlike the creaking of a rusty sign-board in the wind, 

 and to construct its nest in a detached bush. 



B. Rostro subgracile, apice vix adunco. 



B. Beak rather slender, its tip scarcely hooked. 



Sp. 16. La? Ceylonus. 



Lanius Bacbakiri. Shatv, v. vii. p. 319. — Turdus Ceylonus. 

 Steph. v. x. p. 253.— Ceylon. 



Sp. 17. La. gutturalis. Ann. Mus. (Daudin.) iii. 144. pi. 15. 

 La? supra viridis , Jronte superciliisque Jlavis ; lined a na r es per 



oculos lunuldque pectorali conjunct d nigris; guld corporeque 



subtus riifis. 

 Shrike above green, with the forehead and eyebrows yellow ; a 



line from the nostrils passing through the eyes, and united 



to a lunule on the breast, black ; the throat and body beneath 



red. 

 Pie-griesche Perrin. La Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. vi. 124. pi- 286.— 



Malimbic Shrike. Lath. Gen. Hist. ii. 20. 



