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INSECTIVOBJE. 



Family LANID^E. (Bonaparte. J 



Genus Lanius. ( Linncsus.J 



LESSER GREY SHRIKE. 



Lanius minor. 



Lanius minor, Gmelin. 



Linn^us, 1788. Temminck, 



1820. 

 Vieillot. Lesson. Cuvieb. 



KeYSEBLING ET BlASIUS. 

 ScHLEGEL. SCHINZ. 



" italicus, Latham; Ind. 1790. 



Averla cenerina, Savi. 



Pie- Grieche grise a front noir, Of the Fbench. 



Grauer Wiirger, Of the Gebmans. 



Specific Characters. — "Wings with, supplementary quill feather 

 short and narrow, and a white speculum on the primaries; first 

 quill feather much longer than the fourth; tail very long, nearly 

 square in the middle ; two lateral quills entirely white ; adult birds 

 with rose-coloured chests. 



Length nine inches. — Degland. Length eight inches. — Tbm- 

 minck. 



This is another of the three Shrikes which Temminck 

 considers as a permanent variety or race of the type 

 L. excubitor, and which I noticed in the previous de- 



