8 BRITISH BIRDS, WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGs. 
young bird of this species alive: it had been taken by means of bird-lime near 
Glendow, on November 19th; he kept this bird alive for some months. Herr 
Mathias Rausch (Gefiederte Welt, 1891, p. 475) observes that this bird is not of 
the slightest value for aviculture as a singer, for although he both mocks well 
and sings industriously, he, by his call-notes, makes the other singers crazy with 
anxiety and fear, and thereby disturbs them in their song. ‘‘One can only find 
it caged in the possession of peculiar fanciers, who mostly aim at completeness, in 
respect of all birds belonging to this category.” * 
From a long study of birds in confinement, I should imagine that Herr Rausch 
speaks here theoretically, and not from experience: if the cry of a Shrike in a 
cage is calculated to terrify a small song-bird in another cage, surely the small 
song-birds of South America ought to be alarmed by the cries of the Pileated Jay, 
or even those of the Sulphur Tyrant; yet they pay no more heed to them than 
to the calls of perfectly innocent birds: I believe that predaceous species are 
recognised by sight, more readily than by their voice. 
Family—LANUDA:. 
THE LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 
Lantus minor, GMEL. 
HIS is so rare a straggler, on migration, to the English coast, that I cannot 
consider it has sufficient claim to be described in the present work. In 
1883, Seebohm mentioned that only four examples had been recorded; and, at the 
end of 1889, Howard Saunders was unable to add to this number. 
* J imagine his meaning to be that they keep all Passeres, whether interesting or not. 
