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INSECTIVORjE. 

 Family LANIDJE. 



Genus Lanius. ( 'Linncsus . J 



MASKED SHRIKE. 



Lanius personatus, Temminck. Schlegel, 



1844. 

 " nulicus, LrcHTENSTElN; Cat: 



Mus : Berlin, 1823. 

 " leucomotopon, Count Muhle, 1844. 



Leacometopon nubicum, Bonaparte. 



" " Capt. Loche; Cat: des 



Mam., et des Ois: 

 Observe en Algerie, 

 1858. Supplementary 

 list, p. 154. 

 Pie-Orieche masquee, Of the French. 



Specific Characters. — Wings with, a rather lengthened bastard 

 quill feather, marked with a white spot. First quill feather longer 

 than the fifth; tail long and sloped, with the most lateral quill 

 feather white, shaft black; the following one also white; inner 

 feather with the shaft and edges black. 



Length nineteen centimetres (seven inches and a half.) — Deg- 

 iand. Length six inches and one sixth, (Paris.) — Muhle. 



This bird appears to have been first described by 

 Lichtenstein, in his Catalogue of Duplicate Birds in 

 the Museum of Berlin, and published in 1823, under 

 the name of Lanius nubicus. It was subsequently dis- 



