ANUS ASHE ORY 
(PALLID SHRIKE.) 
Lanius excubitor, var. 3, Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 7 (1822). 
Lanius elegans, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. p. 122 (1831). 
Collurio lahtora, Sykes, P. Z. 8S. 1832, p. 86. 
Lanius lahtora, Gray & Hardw. Ill. Ind. Zool. ii. pl. 31 (1833). 
Lanius burra, Gray & Hardw. op. cit. pl. 32 (1833). 
Lanius minor, Riipp. Neue Wirb. p. 33 (1835, nec Gm.). 
Lanius pallens, Cass. Pr. Philad. Ac. 1851, p. 245. 
Lanius algeriensis, Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 125 (nec Less.). 
Lanius aucheri, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 294. 
Lanius dealbatus, Defil. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 289. 
Lanius leuconotus, Brehm, J. f. O. 1854, p. 147. 
Lanius orbitalis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 12 (1854). 
Lanius excubitor, Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 47 (nec Linn.). 
Lanius collurio, Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 23 (nec Linn.). 
Lanius meridionalis, 'Tristr. Ibis, 1862, p. 279 (nec Temm.). 
Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ost-Afr. p. 329 (1869-70). 
Collyrio hemileucurus, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). 
Collyrio pallens, Gray, Hand-l. of B. i. p. 391 (1869). 
Lanius leucopygus, Heug\. Orn. N.-O. Afr. p. 480 (1869). 
Lanius fallax, Finsch & Hartl. Tr. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 250 (1870). 
Booras, Arabic (Tristram). 
3 ad. supra pulchré canus, scapularibus uropygioque pure albis: tectricibus alarum minimis canis, dorso 
concoloribus, majoribus cum ald spuria nigris: remigibus nigricantibus, primariis extis et intus ad 
basin albis, secundariis extus albo marginatis et laté ad apicem hdc colore terminatis: cauda nigra, 
albo apicata, rectricibus duabus externis omnino albis, scapis tantim nigris, proximé pogonio interno 
feré nigro: fronte et supercilio distincto albis, loris cum regione oculari et paroticd nigris: genis cum 
corpore toto subtus albis: rostro pedibusque nigricanti-corneis: iride saturaté brunned. 
3 hiem. similis ptilosi estivee, sed paullo sordidior : supra vix olivaceo tinctus. 
3 juv. similis mari adulto, sed paullo sordidior, subtis magis cinereo lavatus, hypochondriis conspicué cinereis : 
fronte alba absente. 
Adult Male in summer plumage. UWead and back pale french-grey; a narrow frontal line, extending back- 
wards and including the loral space, the feathers above and below the eye and the ear-coverts, which 
are somewhat elongated, and extend on to the sides of the neck, deep black; a faint line on the 
forehead above the black lie, and extending over the eye, hoary white; scapulars french-grey, 
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