LANIUS MINOR. 
(LESSER GREY SHRIKE.) 
Pie-grieche d Italie, Buff. Pl. Enl. 32 (1770). 
Lanius minor, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 308 (1788, ex Buff.). 
Lanius italicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 71 (1790). 
Lanius vigil, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 403 (1811). 
Lanius longipennis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 300 (1846). 
Enneoctonus minor, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 153 (1849). 
Enneoctonus italicus, Bonap. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 438. 
Lanius roseus, Bailly, Orn. de la Sav. ii. p. 26 (1853). 
Pie-Grieche @Italie, French; Averla cenerina, Italian; grauer Wiirger, German; Soro- 
koputh, Russian. 
Figure notabiles. 
Buff. Pl. Enl. 32. fig. 1; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pl. 4; Naum. Vég. Deutschl. ii. 
taf. 50; Gould, B. of Eur. ii. pl. 68; Roux, Orn. Prov. pl. 154; Gould, B. Gt. Br. 
part xil.; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 21. fig. 28; Bree, B. of Eur. i. p. 165. 
g ad. supra pulchré cinereus, uropygio et scapularibus exterioribus vix pallidioribus: pileo antico, regione 
oculari et paroticd nigerrimis: tectricibus alarum nigris, margine alari sordidé albo: primariis nigri- 
cantibus, versus apicem brunnescentioribus, primariis ad basin laté albis, speculum magnum alare 
exhibentibus, secundariis angusté albo terminatis: cauda nigra, rectricibus centralibus omnin6 nigris, 
proximis gradatim albo terminatis, extimis omnin6 albis: genis et corpore subtis toto albis, pectore et 
hypochondriis delicaté roseo lavatis: subalaribus albis, cineraceo lavatis: rostro et pedibus nigris: iride 
saturaté brunnea. 
? mari simillima, sed pileo antico minis nigricante: lined frontali albicante, fronte cinerea, nigro mixta. 
Jwv. similis adultis, sed ubique pallidior, fronte haud nigricante: dorsi plumis fascia fuscd subterminali anté 
apicem album transnotatis: tectricibus alarum remigibusque conspicué albido limbatis et terminatis : 
subtus fulvescenti-albus: rostro nigricanti-corneo. 
Adult Male in summer plumage. Above delicate blue-grey, slightly paler on the scapulars and rump; 
forehead, feathers in front of, around, and behind the eye, as well as the ear-coverts deep black; cheeks 
white ; wing-coverts black; quills black, becoming brownish towards the tips, the secondaries tipped 
with white; the bases of the primaries white, forming a broad alar speculum ; tail black, the middle 
feathers entirely so, the next slightly tipped with white, which gradually increases in extent towards 
the outermost feathers, leaving the exterior rectrix on each side entirely white ; under surface of the 
body white, the breast and flanks suffused with a delicate rosy blush ; under wing-coverts white, the 
lower ones decidedly washed with ashy, the margin of the wing being white; bill and feet black; iris 
dark brown. Total length 8:2 inches, culmen 0°55, wing 4°6, tail 3°9, tarsus 1:0. 
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