LANITJS ELEGANS. 



(PALLID SHRIKE.) 



Lanius elegans, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 122 (1831). 



Lanius leucopygus, Hemp. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. Av. i. fol. d, sine diagn. (1828). 



Lanius pallidirostris, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1851, p. 244. 



" % Lanius pattens, Piipp.," id. torn. cit. p. 433. 



Lanius dealhatus, De Fil. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 289. 



Lanius assimilis, A. & L. Brehm, J. f. Orn. 1854, p. 147. 



Lanius leuconotus, id. torn. cit. p. 147. 



Lanius orbitalis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 12 (1854). 



Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 329 (1869). 



Collyrio pattens (Cassin), Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 391. no. 5932 (1869). 



Collyrio elegans (Swainson), Gray, 1. c. no. 5936 (1869). 



Collyrio hemileucurus (Finsch & Hartl.), Gray, 1. c. no. 5941 (1869). 



Lanius lahtora (partim), Dresser, B. of Eur. iii. p. 381 (1872). 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Dresser, B. of Eur. iii. pi. 146 (lower figure) ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. pis. vi., vii. 



Ad. supra pulchre canus, scapularibus et uropygio imo albis : subtus pure albus: linea frontali, loris cum 

 regione oculari et parotica nigris, albo anguste marginatis : tectricibus alarum minimis canis, majoribus 

 cum ala spuria nigris : remigibus nigris, primariis ad basin albis, secundariis albo marginatis et 

 apicatis : rectricibus centralibus nigris anguste albo apicatis, duabus externis omnind albis : scapis 

 tantum nigris, proximo pogonio interno fere nigro : subalaribus et secundariis subtus in pogonio interno 

 albis : rostro pedibusque nigricanti-corneis : iride fusca. 



Adult (Algeria). Upper parts pale French grey, underparts pure white; lower rump white; upper tail- 

 coverts pale French grey ; a very narrow frontal line, lores, and a broad patch passing through and 

 behind the eye deep black, narrowly margined above with white ; wings black, the primaries with the 

 basal portion pure white, forming a large alar patch, and narrowly tipped with white ; secondaries with 

 most of the inner web and the terminal portion white, the two innermost, however, black tipped with 

 white ; scapulars white, the lesser wing-coverts grey ; central rectrices black, slightly tipped with white, 

 the outermost tail-feather white, the next white with a narrow black shaft-line, and the next two black, 

 broadly tipped with white ; under wing-coverts and inner webs of the secondaries white : bill and legs 

 blackish horn; iris brown. Total length about 9 inches, culmen - 8, wing 4 - l, tail 4"4, tarsus 1"2. 



When in 1871 and 1872 Dr. Sharpe and myself wrote the articles in the ' Birds of Europe ' on 

 the Grey Shrikes we deemed it advisable to unite under Lanius lahtora all the closely allied 

 forms, which Dr. Gadow (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. pp. 247-252) differentiates under the names of 

 Lanius lahtora, L. fallax, L. assimilis, L. hemileucurus, L. dealhatus, and L. elegans ; and to those 



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