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LANIUS AURICULATUS, 
(WOODCHAT SHRIKE.) 
Lanius auriculatus, Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 71 (1766). 
Enneoctonus auriculatus, Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 159. 
Lanius pomeranus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls. t. i. (1786). 
Enneoctonus pomeranus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 73 (1851). 
Lanius rutilus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 70 (1790). 
Lanius ruficeps, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. ii. p. 1327 (1805). 
Lanius ruficollis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 316 (1809). 
Phoneus rufus, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 33 (1829). 
Enneoctonus rufus, Bonap. Comp. List B. Kur. and N. Am. p. 26 (1838). 
Lanius melanotos, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 238 (1831). 
Lanius rutilans, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 11. p. 601 (1840). 
Enneoctonus rutilans, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 73 (1851). 
Lanius badius, Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. ii. p. 100 (1854). 
Pie-griéche rousse, French ; rothkopfiger Wirger, German; Rodhovedet Tornskade, Danish ; 
Averla capirossa, Italian; Picanso, Portuguese. 
Mas fronte, regione parotica, colli lateribus et interscapulio nigerrimis: pileo cum collo toto postico letissime 
castaneis : scapularibus uropygioque clare albis : dorso postico cinereo: tectricibus alarum nigris anguste 
albo marginatis: remigibus brunnescenti-nigris, primariis ad basin albis, externe speculum album for- 
mantibus, secundariis albo anguste marginatis et apicatis: rectricibus brunnescenti-nigris, parte basali 
et apicibus omnium preter duas medias albis, exteris etiam albo marginatis: loris albis: corpore subtus 
omnino albo, fulvo tincto: rostro et pedibus brunnescenti-nigris. 
Fem. mari similis, at coloribus dilutioribus : fronte, genis, et interscapulio nigris rufo-tinctis. 
Juv. brunneus, ochraceo et nigro transversim vermiculatus, tectricibus alarum rectricibusque nigris rufescente 
marginatis et nigro vermiculatis: scapularibus et uropygio pallide ochrascentibus: subtus ochraceus, 
nigro vermiculatus, gula tantum cum tectricibus subalaribus et subcaudalibus fulvescentibus. 
Adult Male. Crown of the head and back of the neck, extending downwards on to the upper part of the 
back, very rich chestnut; lores white; forehead, space round the eye, ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and 
space between the shoulders jet black; scapulars and rump pure white; lower part of the back and 
upper tail-coverts grey ; wing-coverts blackish brown narrowly edged with greyish white ; quills blackish 
brown, white at the base, the basal part of the primaries white on the outer web, thus forming a very 
distinct alar bar, the secondaries narrowly edged and tipped with white; tail dark blackish-brown, all 
but the two centre feathers white at the base and tipped with white, the latter colour predominating on 
the two outer feathers, the exterior one being almost wholly white with only a blackish mark on the 
inner web; beneath pure white with a slight fulvous tinge; bill and feet dark brown. 
Female. Similar to the male, but has all the colours less bright, and the forehead, and the parts generally of 
the body which in the male are black, dull blackish brown with an admixture of rufous. 
