SHRIKE. 



5 



1..— CINEREOUS SHRIKE. 



Lanius Excubitor, Ltd. Orn. i. 67. Lin. \. 13b. Faun. Suec. No. 80. Gm. LJn.i. 300. 



Scop. Ann. i. No. 18. Bjrwn. No. 21. 22. Sep/J. Vog. t. p. 121. Fawn. Arag. p. 71. 



jfram. p. 364. Ampelis. Borowsk. Nat. ii. p. 83, Shaiv's Zool. vii. 282. pi. 37. 



Tern. jtfan. d'Orn. p. 58. Jcf. £rf. ii. 142. 

 Falco congener, Klein. Stem. t. 9. f. 1. a. b. c. Id. Gv. p. 20. t.5. f.9. 

 Lanius, seu Collurio cinereus major, Raii, p. 18. A. 3. Will. Orn. p. 53. 1. 10. Bris. 



if. 141. Id. 8vo. 197. ifftwi. ^4«. 53. 1. Frisch. t. 60. Gmh. t. 5"3. Johnston. 



Av. pi. 2. f.5. 

 Ferlotta berettina,- Zinnan. Uov. 90. 1. 15. f. 80,. 

 Castrica palombina, Olin. Uc. t. p. 41. 

 II Falconetti, Cett. Uc. Sard. p. 54. 



Der grosse graue Wurger, Beclist. Diktsch.W. p. 376. taf. 13. 

 Der Wachter, Naturf. 8. s. 60- Id. xviii. 232. Id. xxv. 16. 

 La Pie-Griesche grise, Buf. i. 296. t. 20. PI. enl. 445. 

 Greiter Butcher-Bird, Will. Engl. p. 87. pi. 10. Collinses Birds, pi. 1. f.9. Albin. 



ii. pi. 13. Ellis. Voy. ii. p. 28; 

 Great Cinereous Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 160. Br. Zool.. No. 71. pi. 33. Id.fol. p. 73. t. C. 



Id. ed. 1812. p. 272. pi. 35. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 127. Phil. Trans, lxii. p.-386. 



Catesb. Car. App. t. 36. Bewick, L; pi. p. 58. Lewin's Birds, i.- pi. 30. Orn. 



Diet. $ Sup. 



THE length of this bird is 10 inches; breadth fourteen; weight 

 two ounces. Bill black, strong, and hooked; plumage above pale 

 ash-colour; beneath white ; through the eyes a black streak, growing 

 broader behind ; scapulars and base of the greater quills white, the 

 rest black ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers black, the out- 

 most white, the intermediate ones black, with the ends more or less 

 white ; legs black. 



The female differs chiefly in the under parts, which are dusky 

 white, marked with transverse, semicircular brown lines. 



Inhabits various parts of Europe, though not common in Eng- 

 land; is, in general, first seen here about May, and disappears in 



